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DBMS > dBASE vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PouchDB

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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.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Search engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#356  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score5.71
Rank#64  Overall
#8  Search engines
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.jaguardb.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAsthon TateDataJaguar, Inc.MicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release1979201520152012
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.3 July 2023V17.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScript
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
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 DBMSnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesrights management via user accountsyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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