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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. gStore vs. Quasardb vs. STSdb

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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 native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

en.gstore.cn

quasar.ai

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Asthon Tate

quasardb

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1979

2016

2009

2011

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.2, November 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

with tags

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
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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