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DBMS > dBASE vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenQM vs. PlanetScale vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenQM vs. PlanetScale vs. Valentina Server

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgeospock.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmplanetscale.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaseplanetscale.com/­docsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAsthon TateGeoSpockRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsPlanetScaleParadigma Software
Initial release1979199320201999
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.0, September 20193.4-125.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptGo
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyesyes infoproprietary syntaxyes
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
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 DBMSnoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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