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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. LMDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#125	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

www.dbase.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.lmdb.tech/doc

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

ActiveViam

Asthon Tate

Softmotions

Symas

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1979

2012

2011

2000

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

0.9.32, January 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Public Domain

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

server-less

Linux
Unix
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

in-process shared library

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

via file-system locks

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

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