DBMS > dBASE vs. FatDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. FatDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle vs. OrigoDB

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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.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Widely used RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database

origodb.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.objectbox.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Asthon Tate

FatCloud

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1979

2012

2017

1980

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

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

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

via applications

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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News

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14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

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