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DBMS > dBASE vs. Faircom EDGE vs. gStore vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Faircom EDGE vs. gStore vs. IBM Cloudant

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  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.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgeen.gstore.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAsthon TateFairCom CorporationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release1979197920162010
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019V3, October 20201.2, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C++Erlang
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesnono
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
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infowhen using SQLno
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 DBMSACIDyesno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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.Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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