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DBMS > dBASE vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Transbase

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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.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#315  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#355  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAsthon TateClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBMTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release1979198320171987
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201919.4.1, November 20212.0Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEPHPC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesyesyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Active-active shard replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
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 DBMSnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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