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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Redis vs. SQLite

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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.

In-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker info

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

Widely used in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store info

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store info

with Redis Modules
Graph DBMS info

with Redis Modules
Search engine info

with Redis Modules
Time Series DBMS info

with Redis Modules

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Score	14.09
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	152.87
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	126.82
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

redis.io

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

redis.io/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

Salvatore Sanfilippo info

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1979

2009

2000

Current release

dBASE PLUS 11, December 2016

6.0.6, July 2020

3.32.2 (June 4, 2020), June 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

Open Source info

Public Domain

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows info

dBase Pro

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows info

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support info

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 RediSearch module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

proprietary protocol info

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC info

inofficial driver
ODBC info

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication info

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication info

Chained replication is supported

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

via file-system locks

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Simple password-based access control info

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

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