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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. dBASE vs. Manticore Search vs. PostGIS

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphdBase 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.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Spatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.dbase.commanticoresearch.compostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasemanual.manticoresearch.compostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBAsthon TateManticore Software
Initial release2012197920172005
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021dBASE 2019, 20196.0, February 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.noCan index from XMLyes
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
dBase proprietary IDEElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)noneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
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 DBMSyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users and rolesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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