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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. ObjectBox vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisobjectbox.ioswaydb.simer.auwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.objectbox.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAsthon TateInterSystemsObjectBox LimitedSimer PlahaTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19792018201720181987
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192023.3, June 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and servernoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
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 DBMSACIDACIDAtomic execution of operationsyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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