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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Machbase Neo vs. Manticore Search vs. RethinkDB vs. SpatiaLite

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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.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#348	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

machbase.com/dbms

manual.manticoresearch.com

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

Machbase

Manticore Software

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1979

2013

2017

2009

2008

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

V8.0, August 2023

6.0, February 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

simple password-based access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

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