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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridDB vs. Yanza

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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.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegriddb.netyanza.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.griddb.net
DeveloperAsthon TateGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Toshiba CorporationYanza
Initial release1979201220132015
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinuxWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)no
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.limited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
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 DBMSyesACID at container levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno
More information provided by the system vendor
dBASEFirebase Realtime DatabaseGridDBYanza
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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