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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. FatDB vs. gStore vs. OpenEdge

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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.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

en.gstore.cn

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Asthon Tate

FatCloud

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

1979

2012

2016

1984

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.2, November 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

close to SQL 92

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

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

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

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

yes

ACID

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Users and groups

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