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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. OpenEdge vs. RethinkDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Vitess

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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.Application development environment with integrated database management systemDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Spatial extension of SQLiteScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score3.69
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#202  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.progress.com/­openedgerethinkdb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestrethinkdb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAsthon TateProgress Software CorporationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Alessandro FurieriThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release19791984200920082013
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019OpenEdge 12.2, March 20202.4.1, August 20205.0.0, August 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Go
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesnoyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding inforange basednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
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 DBMSACIDAtomic single-document operationsACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesUsers and groupsyes infousers and table-level permissionsnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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