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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. OpenEdge

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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.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.gbase.cnazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasensdb.iowww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlnsdb.io/­Architecturedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperAsthon TateGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.MicrosoftProgress Software Corporation
Initial release19792004201020171984
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cV12OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxhostedLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.yesyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query languageyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsTransact SQLnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
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 DBMSACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups

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