DBMS > dBASE vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB vs. RethinkDB

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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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.92
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Score	2.28
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	#21	Document stores

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

www.dbase.com

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

pouchdb.com

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

pouchdb.com/guides

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Asthon Tate

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

Apache Software Foundation

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

1979

1995

2007

2012

2009

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

proprietary syntax

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication

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
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

configurable

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

users and table-level permissions

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