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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. dBASE vs. Lovefield vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

www.dbase.com

google.github.io/lovefield

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Asthon Tate

Google

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2017

1979

2014

2012

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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