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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Lovefield vs. MaxDB vs. SQL.JS

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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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#44	Overall
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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

google.github.io/lovefield

maxdb.sap.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

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

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

Google

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1979

2014

1984

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

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