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Name

Description

All 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.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#19	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.exasol.com/resources

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Mobiland AG

Asthon Tate

Exasol

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2018

1979

2000

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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