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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. FeatureBase vs. GBase vs. TerminusDB

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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.

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#296	Overall
	#134	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.featurebase.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Asthon Tate

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1979

2017

2004

2018

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2022, May 2022

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Journaling Streams

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

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

in-memory journaling

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

yes

Role-based access control

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