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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. SpaceTime

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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.In-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmanticoresearch.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperAsthon TateManticore SoftwareMireo
Initial release1979201420172020
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20196.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.noCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.View functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
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 DBMSno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnonoyes

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