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DBMS > dBASE vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. Trafodion

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencepouchdb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencepouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesttrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAsthon TateOracleApache Software FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19792007201220092014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201914.1, August 20237.1.1, June 20193.2.0, December 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptErlangC++, Java
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C++
Java
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noView functions in JavaScriptErlangJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyes infoLive Eventsyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factoryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
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 DBMSconfigurablenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnoyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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