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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.dbase.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Asthon Tate

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

1979

2017

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes, in Lua

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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