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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. DuckDB vs. Linter vs. LokiJS

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Name

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.

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

RDBMS for high security requirements

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.dbase.com

duckdb.org

linter.ru

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

duckdb.org/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Asthon Tate

relex.ru

Initial release

1979

2018

1990

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.0.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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