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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. dBASE vs. HBase vs. Lovefield vs. SQL.JS

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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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
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.dbase.comhbase.apache.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBAsthon TateApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetGoogleAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20121979200820142012
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021dBASE 2019, 20192.3.4, January 20212.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safariserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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, geospatialyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
dBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
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 DBMSSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
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 infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnono

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