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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.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgraphite.readthedocs.ioravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperAsthon TateSoftmotionsChris DavisHibernating Rhinos
Initial release1979201220062010
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCPythonC#
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lessLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idNumeric data onlyno
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.no
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.in-process shared libraryHTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono
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 DBMSnonoACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnonoAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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