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DBMS > dBASE vs. Heroic vs. Machbase Neo vs. SpatiaLite vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Heroic vs. Machbase Neo vs. SpatiaLite vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparison
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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataSpatial extension of SQLiteA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmachbase.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdb
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasespotify.github.io/­heroicmachbase.com/­dbmswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
DeveloperAsthon TateSpotifyMachbaseAlessandro FurieriTencent
Initial release19792014201320082013
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019V8.0, August 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-lesshosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nononoyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
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 DBMSnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tableyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple password-based access controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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