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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Lovefield vs. Qdrant

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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.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#259	Overall
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#145	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Asthon Tate

Kyligence, Inc.

Google

Qdrant

Initial release

1979

2016

2014

2021

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Rust

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable 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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Key-based authentication

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