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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. KairosDB vs. Oracle Rdb

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
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.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlkairosdb.github.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperAsthon TateFairCom CorporationFatCloudOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release19791979201220131984
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019V3, October 20201.2.2, November 20187.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C#Java
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesno infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernoyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes infovia applicationsno
Triggersnoyesyes infovia applicationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infowhen using SQLnonoyes
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 DBMSACIDnonoyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.no infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationssimple password-based access control

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