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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. Galaxybase vs. ToroDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is 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.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

galaxybase.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

Developer

Asthon Tate

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

8Kdata

Initial release

1979

2008

2017

2016

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.2.4, September 2012

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Java
PHP

Go
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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