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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. FatDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LokiJS

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.dbase.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Asthon Tate

FatCloud

Kyligence, Inc.

Initial release

1979

2012

2016

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

via applications

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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