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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Geode vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. mSQL

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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.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeMultivalue DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgeode.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchhughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9learn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAsthon TateOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)MicrosoftHughes Technologies
Initial release19792002199120151994
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.1, February 20175.7V14.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAIX
Linux
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsyesnono
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
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 DBMSyes, on a single nodeACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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