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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. dBASE vs. IBM Cloudant vs. searchxml

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSdBase 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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitealtibase.comwww.dbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAltibaseAsthon TateIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014informationpartners gmbh
Initial release1999197920102015
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023dBASE 2019, 20191.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedWindows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
dBase proprietary IDEC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSno infoatomic operations within a document possiblemultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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