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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. FoundationDB vs. Hypertable vs. Teradata

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score41.47
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.teradata.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaseapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperAsthon TateFoundationDBHypertable Inc.Teradata
Initial release1979201320091984
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20196.2.28, November 20200.9.8.11, March 2016Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hosted
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.C++ API
Thrift
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.in SQL-layer onlynoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlynoyes
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 DBMSACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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