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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. OrigoDB vs. PouchDB vs. SiriDB

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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.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

origodb.com/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Asthon Tate

Robert Friberg et al

Apache Software Foundation

Cesbit

Initial release

1979

2009

under the name LiveDB

2012

2017

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
Windows

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

Numeric data

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

simple rights management via user accounts

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