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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. FileMaker vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Oracle Rdb

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  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.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteCloud-based data warehousing service
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperAsthon TateClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGridGain Systems, Inc.IBMOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release19791983200720141984
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201919.4.1, November 2021GridGain 8.5.17.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedHP Open VMS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesno infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEPHPC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)PL/SQL, SQL PL
Triggersnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes (replicated cache)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
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 DBMSnoACIDACIDyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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