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DBMS > dBASE vs. jBASE vs. SwayDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. jBASE vs. SwayDB vs. VelocityDB

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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.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#157  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseswaydb.simer.auvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAsthon TateRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Simer PlahaVelocityDB Inc
Initial release1979199120182011
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.77.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaC#
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
Linux
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalnoyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
.Net
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Java
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesnono
TriggersnoyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
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 DBMSACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoBased on Windows Authentication

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