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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Hyprcubd vs. Infobright vs. Manticore Search

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is 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.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

www.dbase.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

manticoresearch.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Asthon Tate

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Manticore Software

Initial release

1979

2005

2017

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC (https)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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