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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. SwayDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.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)An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeMultivalue DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbswaydb.simer.auwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperCockroach LabsAsthon TateSoftmotionsSimer PlahaRocket Software
Initial release20151979201220181985
Current release23.1.1, May 2023dBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCScalaC
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lessAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemayesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnooptional
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.in-process shared libraryJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
dBase proprietary IDEActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyes
Triggersnonononoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTnonenonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono
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 DBMSnoAtomic execution of operationsACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and rolesnonoAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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