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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. dBASE vs. GeoSpock vs. SQLite

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.dbase.com

geospock.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Asthon Tate

GeoSpock

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

1979

2000

Current release

15585

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.0, September 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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