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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. mSQL vs. SwayDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#192	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

swaydb.simer.au

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Asthon Tate

Hughes Technologies

Simer Plaha

Tencent

Initial release

1979

1994

2018

2013

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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