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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GBase vs. NSDb vs. OpenEdge vs. SQL.JS

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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.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesApplication development environment with integrated database management systemPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.gbase.cnnsdb.iowww.progress.com/­openedgesql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasensdb.io/­Architecturedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAsthon TateGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Progress Software CorporationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release19792004201719842012
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cOpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava, ScalaJavaScript
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#Java
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
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 DBMSACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesUsers and groupsno

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