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DBMS > dBASE vs. Infobright vs. LevelDB vs. MaxDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Infobright vs. LevelDB vs. MaxDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. 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.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbgithub.com/­google/­leveldbmaxdb.sap.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperAsthon TateIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.GoogleSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Sybase, SAP
Initial release19792005201119841993
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.23, February 20217.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoBSDcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyesyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
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 DBMSACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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