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DBMS > dBASE vs. Galaxybase vs. GBase vs. Infobright

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Galaxybase vs. GBase vs. Infobright

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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.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgalaxybase.comwww.gbase.cnignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebase
DeveloperAsthon TateChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司General Data Technology Co., Ltd.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release1979201720042005
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019Nov 20, November 2021GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaC, Java, PythonC
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEGo
Java
Python
C#.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined procedures and functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
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 DBMSACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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