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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB

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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.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Asthon Tate

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

1979

2013

2011

2022

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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