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Name

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.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.dbase.com

www.ehcache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.ehcache.org/documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Asthon Tate

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Softmotions

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1979

2009

2012

2015

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.10.0, March 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JCache

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

Access rights for users and roles

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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