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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Linter vs. PouchDB vs. YTsaurus

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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.

RDBMS for high security requirements

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

pouchdb.com/guides

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Asthon Tate

relex.ru

Apache Software Foundation

Yandex

Initial release

1979

1990

2012

2023

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

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

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

JavaScript

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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