DBMS > dBASE vs. MySQL vs. OpenEdge vs. Trafodion vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. MySQL vs. OpenEdge vs. Trafodion vs. Vertica

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Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.mysql.com

www.progress.com/openedge

trafodion.apache.org

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

dev.mysql.com/doc

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Asthon Tate

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Progress Software Corporation

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

1979

1995

1984

2014

2005

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.3.0, February 2019

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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