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DBMS > dBASE vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Trafodion vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Trafodion vs. Valentina Server

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousetrafodion.apache.orgwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasetrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAsthon TateIBMApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPParadigma Software
Initial release1979201420141999
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.3.0, February 20195.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++, Java
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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.no infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources..NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.PL/SQL, SQL PLJava Stored Proceduresyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
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 DBMSACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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