DBMS > dBASE vs. Lovefield vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Lovefield vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB 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 high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

google.github.io/lovefield

questdb.io

rocksdb.org

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

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

questdb.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

Google

QuestDB Technology Inc

Facebook, Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1979

2014

2013

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

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

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

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

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

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

ACID for single-table writes

yes

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

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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