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DBMS > dBASE vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Lovefield vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Lovefield vs. WakandaDB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed 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.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA multi-model DBMS and application serverEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.intersystems.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAsthon TateIBMInterSystemsGoogleWakanda SAS
Initial release19792017199720142012
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.02018.1.4, May 20202.1.12, February 20172.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesyesnoyes
TriggersnonoyesUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
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 DBMSnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoyes

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