ActionScript vs. JavaScript vs. TaffyDB vs. Textastic Comparison Chart

The ActionScript® scripting language lets you add complex interactivity, playback control, and data display to your application. You can add ActionScript in the authoring environment by using the Actions panel, Script window, or an external editor. ActionScript follows its own rules of syntax, and reserved keywords, and lets you use variables to store and retrieve information. ActionScript includes a large library of built‑in classes that let you create objects to perform many useful tasks. You do not have to understand every ActionScript element to begin scripting. If you have a clear goal, you can start building scripts with simple actions. ActionScript and JavaScript are both rooted in the ECMA-262 standard, the international standard for the ECMAScript scripting language. For this reason, developers who are familiar with JavaScript can find ActionScript immediately familiar. Animate includes more than one version of ActionScript to meet the needs of different kinds of developers.

​TaffyDB is an open source JavaScript library that brings powerful database functionality into your JavaScript applications. It offers a small file size with extremely fast queries and a powerful JavaScript-centric data selection engine. TaffyDB includes database-inspired features such as count, update, and insert, and provides robust cross-browser support. It is easily extended with your own functions and is compatible with any DOM library, as well as server-side JavaScript. Creating a database is straightforward, you can create a new empty database, a database with a single object, an array, or a JSON string. Once you have a database, you can run queries against it by calling the root function and building filter objects. TaffyDB allows you to filter using the database name and object comparison, access data easily, and modify data on the fly. You can also use functions to give you full control over the results of your query.