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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. Fauna vs. HarperDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.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)Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfauna.comwww.harperdb.io
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.fauna.comdocs.harperdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAsthon TateSoftmotionsFauna, Inc.HarperDB
Initial release20131979201220142017
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercial infofree community edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoCScalaNode.js
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lesshostedLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freedynamic schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyes infoJSON data types
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like data manipulation statements
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.in-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGodBase proprietary IDEActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nouser defined functionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneMulti-source replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be defined
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnoACIDAtomic execution of specific operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, using LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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