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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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

nsdb.io

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Asthon Tate

IBM

SenX

Initial release

1979

2014

2017

2015

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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