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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB vs. VoltDB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.compouchdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasepouchdb.com/­guidesterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAsthon TateApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release19792012201120182010
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20197.1.1, June 20194.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC#Prolog, RustJava, C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)WindowsLinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.View functions in JavaScriptnoyesJava
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
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 DBMSnonoACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnonoRole-based access controlUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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