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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. OpenEdge vs. SQLite vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. OpenEdge vs. SQLite vs. Tigris

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryApplication development environment with integrated database management systemWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score3.69
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score103.35
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#359  Overall
#50  Document stores
#52  Key-value stores
#23  Search engines
#37  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.sqlite.orgwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffProgress Software CorporationDwayne Richard HippTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release2014198420002022
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infoclose to SQL 92yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers and groupsnoAccess rights for users and roles

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