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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenTenBase

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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.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityAn enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score8.05
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#381  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­OpenTenBase/­OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/­en
DeveloperAsthon TateInterSystemsOpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent
Initial release19792018
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192023.3, June 20232.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
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 persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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