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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

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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.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.dbase.commanticoresearch.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasemanual.manticoresearch.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAsthon TateManticore SoftwareMicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SC
Initial release19792017199220092011
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20196.0, February 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ErlangC#
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesFixed schemayesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.Can index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineErlangno
Triggersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynoneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
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 DBMSyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes, using Riak Securityno

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