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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GBase vs. Memcached vs. NSDb vs. Rockset

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
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.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.gbase.cnwww.memcached.orgnsdb.iorockset.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikinsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAsthon TateGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalRockset
Initial release19792004200320172019
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c1.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonCJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringdynamic typing
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.yesnono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsnonono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
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 DBMSACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoUsing Apache Luceneyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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