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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. ObjectBox vs. VoltDB vs. WakandaDB

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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.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.objectbox.io

docs.voltdb.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Asthon Tate

ObjectBox Limited

VoltDB Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1979

2017

2010

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

11.3, April 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Linux
OS X
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

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Proprietary native API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication
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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

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

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

yes

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