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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Derby vs. etcd vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Rdb

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptiondBase 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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A distributed reliable key-value storeApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comdb.apache.org/­derbyetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.progress.com/­openedgewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmletcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
documentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperAsthon TateApache Software FoundationProgress Software CorporationOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release1979199719841984
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201910.17.1.0, November 20233.4, August 2019OpenEdge 12.2, March 20207.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGo
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infoclose to SQL 92yes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCgRPC
JSON over HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Java Stored Proceduresnoyes
Triggersnoyesyes, watching key changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDnoACIDyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers and groups

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