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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Rdb

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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.Spatial extension of H2A relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.monetdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperAsthon TateCNRSMonetDB BVOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release1979201320041984
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019Dec2023 (11.49), December 20237.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infobased on H2yes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on H2none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
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 DBMSACIDACIDyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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