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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. PouchDB vs. SiriDB vs. SQL.JS

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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.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
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Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.siridb.com

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

Apache Software Foundation

Cesbit

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1979

2012

2017

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

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

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

simple rights management via user accounts

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