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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. OpenEdge 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.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Asthon Tate

Progress Software Corporation

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1979

1984

2011

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Users and groups

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