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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. H2GIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

Spatial extension of H2

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.h2gis.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Asthon Tate

CNRS

SAP, Sybase

TempoIQ

Initial release

1979

2013

1987

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

based on H2

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
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

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

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