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Name

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.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.gbase.cn

www.ibm.com/products/db2

origodb.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Asthon Tate

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

IBM

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1979

2004

1983

host version

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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