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DBMS > dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenQM vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenQM vs. Valentina Server

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgeospock.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasevalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAsthon TateDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGeoSpockRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsParadigma Software
Initial release1979200819931999
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20197.2.4, September 20122.0, September 20193.4-125.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java, Javascript
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCJDBCODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyesyes
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
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 DBMSACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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