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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. JaguarDB vs. Newts vs. Quasardb

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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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.jaguardb.com

opennms.github.io/newts

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Asthon Tate

DataJaguar, Inc.

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

Initial release

1979

2015

2014

2009

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.3 July 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

rights management via user accounts

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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