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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.

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.harperdb.io

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.harperdb.io/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Asthon Tate

HarperDB

OpenNMS Group

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1979

2017

2014

2013

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Node.js

Java

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP REST
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Java

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual 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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

simple password-based access control

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