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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GBase vs. H2GIS vs. Postgres-XL

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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.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Spatial extension of H2

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Asthon Tate

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

CNRS

Initial release

1979

2004

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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