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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. NCache vs. Newts

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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 document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.dbase.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Asthon Tate

Softmotions

Alachisoft

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2007

1979

2012

2005

2014

Current release

10.7, August 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

in-process shared library

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

dBase proprietary IDE

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users and roles

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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