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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. FatDB vs. HBase vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle

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Name

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.

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

hbase.apache.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

hbase.apache.org/book.html

doc.nuodb.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Asthon Tate

FatCloud

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle

Initial release

1979

2012

2008

2013

1980

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.3.4, January 2021

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

via applications

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Java, SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or 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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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