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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Dragonfly vs. SQLite

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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 instanceWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.56
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#244  Overall
#34  Key-value stores
Score106.69
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.sqlite.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAsthon TateDragonflyDB team and community contributorsDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release197920232000
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.0, March 20233.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linuxserver-less
Data schemeyesscheme-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
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
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Luano
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
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 scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesPassword-based authenticationno

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