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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Postgres-XL vs. VoltDB

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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.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.00
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.postgres-xl.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Asthon Tate

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1979

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

10 R1, October 2018

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

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

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

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

MVCC

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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