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DBMS > dBASE vs. FoundationDB vs. OushuDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. FoundationDB vs. OushuDB vs. STSdb

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
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.A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#357  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaseapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.oushu.com/­documentation
DeveloperAsthon TateFoundationDBOushuSTS Soft SC
Initial release197920132011
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20196.2.28, November 20204.0.1, August 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C#
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyFull-featured ANSI SQL supportno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C++
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.in SQL-layer onlyyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlyno
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 DBMSACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoKerberos, SSL and role based accessno

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