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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB vs. Splice Machine

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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.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOracles in-memory data grid solutionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencepouchdb.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaselearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencepouchdb.com/­guidessplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAsthon TateMicrosoftOracleApache Software FoundationSplice Machine
Initial release19792015200720122014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019V114.1, August 20237.1.1, June 20193.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScriptC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoView functions in JavaScriptyes infoJava
Triggersnonoyes infoLive Eventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
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 DBMSnoconfigurablenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infousing Azure authenticationauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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