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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.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.68
Rank#102  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaselearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchravendb.net/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperAsthon TateMicrosoftHibernating RhinosOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release1979201520102015
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019V15.4, July 20223.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC#Erlang
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (RQL)yes, limited
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyesErlang
Triggersnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between datasets can be stored
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 DBMSnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infousing Azure authenticationAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseno

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