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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. FatDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines 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.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Asthon Tate

FatCloud

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Rocket Software

Initial release

1979

2012

1985

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

yes

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

gRPC (https)

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Can implement custom security layer via applications

token access

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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