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System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. dBASE vs. IBM Cloudant

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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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

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

www.dbase.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Asthon Tate

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2016

1979

2010

Current release

1703

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual 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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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