DBMS > AgensGraph vs. BoltDB vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BoltDB vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

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Score	9.70
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	#9	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.dbase.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Asthon Tate

Google

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2013

1979

2017

2000

Current release

2.1, December 2018

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

dBase proprietary IDE

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

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