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

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Name

Description

dBase 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 cases

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

google.github.io/lovefield

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Asthon Tate

IBM

Google

Alachisoft

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1979

2017

2014

2005

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.0

2.1.12, February 2017

5.3.3, April 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

JavaScript

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active-active shard replication

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

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