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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. mSQL vs. STSdb

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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.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

Asthon Tate

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Hughes Technologies

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1979

2012

1994

2011

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

4.4, October 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

none

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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