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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.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.siridb.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Asthon Tate

Cesbit

Dwayne Richard Hipp

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1979

2017

2000

2001

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

server-less

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

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

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

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

simple rights management via user accounts

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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