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DBMS > dBASE vs. GeoSpock vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GeoSpock vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOracles in-memory data grid solutionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.dbase.comgeospock.comobjectbox.iowww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencepouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.objectbox.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencepouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAsthon TateGeoSpockObjectBox LimitedOracleApache Software Foundation
Initial release1979201720072012
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.0, September 201914.1, August 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC and C++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
All 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCProprietary native APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nononoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes, 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 methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual 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 DBMSnoACIDconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno
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