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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. dBASE vs. mSQL vs. OpenTenBase vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

www.dbase.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

origodb.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Asthon Tate

Hughes Technologies

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2015

1979

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

4.4, October 2021

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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