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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. EJDB vs. EXASOL vs. SwayDB

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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.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.30
Rank#294  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.exasol.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.exasol.com/­resources
DeveloperAsthon TateSoftmotionsExasolSimer Plaha
Initial release1979201220002018
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCScala
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.in-process shared library.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesno
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 DBMSnoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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