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DBMS > CouchDB vs. dBASE vs. Lovefield vs. SQL.JS vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. dBASE vs. Lovefield vs. SQL.JS vs. WakandaDB

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.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 relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptPort of SQLite to JavaScriptWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.dbase.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldsql.js.orgwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerAsthon TateGoogleAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersWakanda SAS
Initial release20051979201420122012
Current release3.3.3, December 2023dBASE 2019, 20192.1.12, February 20172.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptJavaScriptC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safariserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
dBase proprietary IDEJavaScriptJavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyes
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0nonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDByesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and rolesnonoyes

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