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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. DolphinDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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.

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.dolphindb.com

geospock.com

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

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

Developer

Asthon Tate

DolphinDB, Inc

GeoSpock

Google

Initial release

1979

2018

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.0, September 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
Windows

hosted

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

JDBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

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

yes

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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