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DBMS > dBASE vs. HBase vs. Lovefield vs. OceanBase vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. HBase vs. Lovefield vs. OceanBase vs. SQL.JS

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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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comhbase.apache.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefielden.oceanbase.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mden.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasesql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAsthon TateApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetGoogleOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release19792008201420102012
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.3.4, January 20212.1.12, February 20174.3.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScriptAda infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infoCoprocessors in JavanoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeno
TriggersnoyesUsing read-only observersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication using Paxosnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
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 DBMSSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesno 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.yesyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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