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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. DataFS vs. dBASE vs. Heroic

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Description

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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Secondary database models

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	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

newdatabase.com

www.dbase.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Mobiland AG

Asthon Tate

Spotify

Initial release

2013

2018

1979

2014

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

dBase proprietary IDE

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

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

Windows-Profile

Access rights for users and roles

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