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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL

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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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	7.29
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#338	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#172	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

google.github.io/lovefield

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

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

Developer

Asthon Tate

Google

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

1979

2014

1994

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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