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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. ReductStore vs. STSdb vs. TypeDB

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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.

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Primary database model

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.65
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#9	Object oriented DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

typedb.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.reduct.store/docs

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Asthon Tate

ReductStore LLC

STS Soft SC

Vaticle

Initial release

1979

2023

2011

2016

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.9, March 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP API

.NET Client API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C#
Java

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via raft

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

substituted by the relationship feature

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

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

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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