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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. EDB Postgres vs. Warp 10

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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.

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.50
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#355	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.enterprisedb.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Asthon Tate

EnterpriseDB

SenX

Initial release

1979

2005

2015

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

14, December 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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