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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. DataFS vs. dBASE vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDataFS  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.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.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#360  Overall
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comnewdatabase.comwww.dbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperAltibaseMobiland AGAsthon TateIBM
Initial release1999201819792017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.1.263, October 2022dBASE 2019, 20192.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
WindowsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeyesClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
dBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes
Triggersyesno, except callback-events from server when changes happenednono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingProprietary Sharding systemnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardWindows-ProfileAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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