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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. DataFS vs. dBASE

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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.

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

newdatabase.com

www.dbase.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Mobiland AG

Asthon Tate

Initial release

2007

2018

1979

Current release

10.7, August 2023

1.1.263, October 2022

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Data scheme

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

dBase proprietary IDE

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

via events

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Windows-Profile

Access rights for users and roles

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