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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GBase vs. NSDb vs. OpenEdge vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

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 Kubernetes

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

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

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.gbase.cn

nsdb.io

www.progress.com/openedge

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

nsdb.io/Architecture

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Asthon Tate

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Progress Software Corporation

TempoIQ

Initial release

1979

2004

2017

1984

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

Users and groups

simple authentication-based access control

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