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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. dBASE vs. GBase vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.dbase.com

www.gbase.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Asthon Tate

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Initial release

2023

1979

2004

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

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