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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. gStore vs. jBASE vs. PouchDB

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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.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Multivalue DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#359  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.dbase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseen.gstore.cnwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasepouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9pouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAsthon TateGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Apache Software Foundation
Initial release19792012201619912012
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.2, November 20235.77.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.limited functionality with using 'rules'yesyesView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual 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 DBMSyesyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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