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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. EJDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Newts

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Name

Description

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)

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.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

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

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Asthon Tate

Softmotions

Google

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

1979

2012

2017

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

in-process shared library

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

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

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

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