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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. OpenSearch 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.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine
Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	8.28
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	16.97
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Search engines
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#385	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.dbase.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

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

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Asthon Tate

The OpenSearch Software Foundation

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1979

2021

2020

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.19, February 2025

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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

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