DBMS > dBASE vs. Greenplum vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Greenplum vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle

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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.

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

greenplum.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.greenplum.org

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

doc.nuodb.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Asthon Tate

Pivotal Software Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle

Initial release

1979

2005

2010

2013

1980

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.0.0, September 2023

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

since Version 4.2

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Java, SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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