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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. Lovefield vs. searchxml vs. SQL.JS

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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.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.geomesa.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.searchxml.net/category/products

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

CCRi and others

Google

informationpartners gmbh

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1979

2014

2015

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.0.0, May 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

none

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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