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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. dBASE vs. mSQL vs. XTDB

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.97
Rank	#189	Overall
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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

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

www.dbase.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Asthon Tate

Hughes Technologies

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

1979

1994

2019

Current release

11.0, January 2021

dBASE 2019, 2019

4.4, October 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

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

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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