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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. dBASE vs. Interbase

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

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.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.88
Rank	#199	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	9.52
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	3.83
Rank	#76	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

www.dbase.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Alibaba

Asthon Tate

Embarcadero

Initial release

1979

1984

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Interbase Change Views

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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