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DBMS > dBASE vs. DuckDB vs. FatDB vs. GeoSpock vs. JaguarDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. DuckDB vs. FatDB vs. GeoSpock vs. JaguarDB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the 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.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scalePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comduckdb.orggeospock.comwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaseduckdb.org/­docswww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperAsthon TateFatCloudGeoSpockDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release1979201820122015
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.0.0, June 20242.0, September 20193.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C#Java, JavascriptC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lessWindowshostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C#C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes infovia applicationsnono
Triggersnonoyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
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 DBMSACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users can be defined per tablerights management via user accounts

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