DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. dBASE vs. FileMaker vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. dBASE vs. FileMaker vs. Snowflake

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	10.34
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Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.dbase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Asthon Tate

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

1979

1983

2014

Current release

1703

dBASE 2019, 2019

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

dBase proprietary IDE

PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users and roles

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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