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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenQM vs. Sequoiadb vs. WakandaDB

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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.

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sequoiadb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Asthon Tate

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1979

2012

1993

2013

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.4-12

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

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

Document is locked during a transaction

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple password-based access control

yes

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