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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Hazelcast vs. ObjectBox vs. RocksDB

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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.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Rank	#57	Overall
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Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
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Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.objectbox.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Asthon Tate

Hazelcast

ObjectBox Limited

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1979

2008

2017

2013

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.3.6, November 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Replicated Map

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

yes

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

Role-based access control

yes

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