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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. NuoDB vs. openGemini vs. PostGIS

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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.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

doc.nuodb.com

docs.opengemini.org/guide

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Asthon Tate

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Huawei and openGemini community

Initial release

1979

2013

2022

2005

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.1, July 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Administrators and common users accounts

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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