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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. RethinkDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. SurrealDB vs. Vitess

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DescriptiondBase 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.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Spatial extension of SQLiteA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comrethinkdb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsurrealdb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaserethinkdb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAsthon TateThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Alessandro FurieriSurrealDB LtdThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release19792009200820222013
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.4.1, August 20205.0.0, August 2020v1.5.0, May 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++RustGo
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding inforange basednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSAtomic single-document operationsACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infousers and table-level permissionsnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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