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DBMS > dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Oracles in-memory data grid solutionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencepouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencepouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAsthon TateCCRi and othersMicrosoftOracleApache Software Foundation
Initial release19792014199220072012
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20194.0.5, February 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201914.1, August 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layernoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layernoneyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
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 DBMSnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infooptionallyyes 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.depending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno

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