DBMS > dBASE vs. Newts vs. Oracle vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Newts vs. Oracle vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb

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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.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Widely used RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oracle.com/database

postgis.net

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.oracle.com/en/database

postgis.net/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Asthon Tate

OpenNMS Group

Oracle

quasardb

Initial release

1979

2014

1980

2005

2009

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

23c, September 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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