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DBMS > dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hyprcubd vs. PouchDB vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hyprcubd vs. PouchDB vs. Realm

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Serverless Time Series DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.dbase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehyprcubd.com (offline)pouchdb.comrealm.io
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasepouchdb.com/­guidesrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAsthon TateGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Hyprcubd, Inc.Apache Software FoundationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release1979201220122014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20197.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScript
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (https)HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.limited functionality with using 'rules'noView functions in JavaScriptno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
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 DBMSyesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rulestoken accessnoyes

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