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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. OpenQM vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB

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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.

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.dbase.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Asthon Tate

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1979

1993

2009

2020

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.4-12

3.2.0, December 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes, using Riak Security

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