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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. MaxDB vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb

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Name

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.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

maxdb.sap.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Asthon Tate

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

SAP

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1979

1984

2010

2011

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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