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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. Machbase Neo

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

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)

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.dbase.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

machbase.com

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

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

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Asthon Tate

Softmotions

Machbase

Initial release

2023

1979

2012

2013

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

server-less

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

in-process shared library

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

dBase proprietary IDE

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

simple password-based access control

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