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DBMS > dBASE vs. PostGIS vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. PostGIS vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websitewww.dbase.compostgis.netdbmx.net/­tkrzwgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasepostgis.net/­documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAsthon TateMikio HirabayashiJuxt Ltd.
Initial release1979200520202019
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.4.2, February 20240.9.3, August 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++Clojure
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC++
Java
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
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 DBMSACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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