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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Dolt vs. Faircom DB vs. mSQL

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DescriptiondBase 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.A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbhughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.dolthub.comdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html
DeveloperAsthon TateDoltHub IncFairCom CorporationHughes Technologies
Initial release1979201819791994
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019V12, November 20204.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoANSI C, C++C
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.CLI Client
HTTP REST
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infocurrently in alpha releaseyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesno

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