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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.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

galaxybase.com

www.h2database.com

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Asthon Tate

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Thomas Mueller

Google

Initial release

1979

2017

2005

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

Nov 20, November 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Go
Java
Python

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined procedures and functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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