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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. EJDB vs. Rockset vs. Tkrzw

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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)

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

rockset.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

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

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Asthon Tate

Softmotions

Rockset

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

1979

2012

2019

2020

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

in-process shared library

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

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.

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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