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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. jBASE vs. PouchDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitydBase 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 robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeMultivalue DBMSDocument store
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasepouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9pouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperCognitectAsthon TateSoftmotionsRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20121979201219912012
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023dBASE 2019, 20195.77.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCJavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lessAIX
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idoptionalno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.in-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
dBase proprietary IDEActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyesView functions in JavaScript
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno 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 DBMSnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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