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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Ehcache vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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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.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.ehcache.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperAsthon TateTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBM
Initial release1979200919832017
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.10.0, March 202219.4.1, November 20212.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infovia pluginsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JCacheFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJavaPHPC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyesyes
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Active-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
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 DBMSyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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