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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GBase vs. Machbase Neo vs. NSDb

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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.

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

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Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

machbase.com/dbms

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Asthon Tate

Machbase

Initial release

1979

2013

2017

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

GBase 8a

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

simple password-based access control

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