DBMS > Cubrid vs. dBASE vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. dBASE vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.dbase.com

google.github.io/lovefield

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Asthon Tate

Google

Hughes Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2008

1979

2014

1994

2020

Current release

11.0, January 2021

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

Linux

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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