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DBMS > Coveo vs. dBASE vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. dBASE vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. Trafodion

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NameCoveo  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentdBase 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 infooriginally from BorlandMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.11
Rank#118  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.coveo.comwww.dbase.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesstrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.coveo.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperCoveoAsthon TateEmbarcaderoMicrosoftApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20121979198419922014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019InterBase 2020, December 20191902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Data schemehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
dBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneInterbase Change Viewsnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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