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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. FatDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

Developer

Asthon Tate

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

FatCloud

Initial release

1979

2008

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

via applications

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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