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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. InfinityDB

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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)

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.datomic.com

www.dbase.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

boilerbay.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

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

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Cognitect

Asthon Tate

Softmotions

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

2012

1979

2012

2002

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

in-process shared library

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

dBase proprietary IDE

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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