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DBMS > dBASE vs. GBase vs. GridGain vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GBase vs. GridGain vs. Valentina Server

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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.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.gbase.cnwww.gridgain.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAsthon TateGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GridGain Systems, Inc.Paradigma Software
Initial release1979200420071999
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cGridGain 8.5.15.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes
Triggersnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
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 DBMSACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 rolesyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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