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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Axibase vs. Badger vs. dBASE vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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.

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

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

Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#325	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	3.47
Rank	#93	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.dbase.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

4D, Inc

Axibase Corporation

DGraph Labs

Asthon Tate

Rocket Software

Initial release

1984

2013

2017

1979

1985

Current release

v20, April 2023

15585

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

configurable

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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