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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. DolphinDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Graph Engine vs. H2

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptiondBase 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.DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.dolphindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.graphengine.iowww.h2database.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.html
DeveloperAsthon TateDolphinDB, IncGoogleMicrosoftThomas Mueller
Initial release19792018201720102005
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019v2.00.4, January 20222.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++.NET and CJava
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Windows
hosted.NETAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Triggersnonoyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSyesyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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