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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. NuoDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#195	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

sql.js.org

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

doc.nuodb.com

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1979

2013

2012

2009

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Android
Linux
Windows

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate 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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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