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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. EsgynDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. YottaDB

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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.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

developers.eventstore.com

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Asthon Tate

Esgyn

Event Store Limited

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1979

2015

2012

2001

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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