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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Interbase vs. MySQL vs. searchxml vs. TerminusDB

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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.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandWidely used open source RDBMSDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APINative XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score12.24
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score5.51
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score1101.50
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#397  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.mysql.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedev.mysql.com/­docwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAsthon TateEmbarcaderoOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Suninformationpartners gmbhDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19791984199520152018
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019InterBase 2020, December 20198.3.0, January 20241.011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possibleyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes infoproprietary syntaxyes infoon the application serveryes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInterbase Change ViewsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
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 infonot for MyISAM storage enginemultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesRole-based access control

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