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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Quasardb vs. SpaceTime vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

quasar.ai

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Asthon Tate

quasardb

Mireo

8Kdata

Initial release

1979

2009

2020

2016

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

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

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
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

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

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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