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DBMS > Altibase vs. dBASE vs. mSQL vs. SpaceTime vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. dBASE vs. mSQL vs. SpaceTime vs. SwayDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSdBase 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.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.dbase.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.mireo.com/­spacetimeswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebase
DeveloperAltibaseAsthon TateHughes TechnologiesMireoSimer Plaha
Initial release19991979199420202018
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023dBASE 2019, 20194.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
dBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C#
C++
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnonoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesnoyesno

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