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DBMS > dBASE vs. FileMaker vs. mSQL vs. NSDb vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. FileMaker vs. mSQL vs. NSDb vs. PostGIS

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
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.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlnsdb.iopostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAsthon TateClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleHughes Technologies
Initial release19791983199420172005
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201919.4.1, November 20214.4, October 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJava, ScalaC
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEPHPC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesnonouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
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 DBMSnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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