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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Dragonfly vs. Linter vs. SiteWhere

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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 drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceRDBMS for high security requirementsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
linter.rugithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.dragonflydb.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAsthon TateDragonflyDB team and community contributorsrelex.ruSiteWhere
Initial release1979202319902010
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesscheme-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Luayes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
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 DBMSAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 rolesPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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