DBMS > Couchbase vs. Coveo vs. dBASE vs. Interbase vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Coveo vs. dBASE vs. Interbase vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

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.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.coveo.com

www.dbase.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.coveo.com

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Coveo

Asthon Tate

Embarcadero

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2011

2012

1979

1984

2014

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

Interbase Change Views

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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