DBMS > dBASE vs. GeoSpock vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GeoSpock vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VelocityDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded 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.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

geospock.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Asthon Tate

GeoSpock

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1979

2013

1992

2011

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.0, September 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.