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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. FileMaker vs. NSDb vs. Warp 10

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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.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

nsdb.io

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Asthon Tate

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

SenX

Initial release

1979

1983

2017

2015

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

PHP

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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