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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IRONdb vs. Riak KV vs. SQL.JS

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is 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.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/sql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAsthon TateGoogleCirconus LLC.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release19792015201720092012
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019V0.10.20, January 20183.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++ErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes
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 indexesyesnonorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes, in LuaErlangno
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
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 DBMSAtomic single-row operationsnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noyes, using Riak Securityno

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