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DBMS > dBASE vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 vs. XTDB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.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/LinuxA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2www.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAsthon TateGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMJuxt Ltd.
Initial release197920041983 infohost version2019
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c12.1, October 20161.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC and C++Clojure
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
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 DBMSACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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