DBMS > dBASE vs. GBase vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GBase vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sadas Engine

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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.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.gbase.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Asthon Tate

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

1979

2004

2014

2006

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session 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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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