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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. PouchDB vs. Realm

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphdBase 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-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitebangdb.comwww.dbase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasepouchdb.comrealm.io
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasepouchdb.com/­guidesrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBAsthon TateGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software FoundationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20121979201220122014
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021dBASE 2019, 20197.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnononono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
dBase proprietary IDEJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.limited functionality with using 'rules'View functions in JavaScriptno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)noneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoyes

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