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DBMS > dBASE vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Lovefield vs. WakandaDB vs. Yaacomo

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

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and 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 casesEmbeddable 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 dataOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwakanda.github.ioyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAsthon TateIBMGoogleWakanda SASQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release19792017201420122009
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.02.1.12, February 20172.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license availablecommercial
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 additionserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesnoyes
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneActive-active shard replicationnonenoneSource-replica replication
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 storageyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDBnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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