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

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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.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	14.54
Rank	#39	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	16.95
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.75
Rank	#194	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#341	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

objectbox.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Asthon Tate

Google

acquired by Google 2014

ObjectBox Limited

Yanza

Initial release

1979

2012

2017

2015

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

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