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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. OpenTenBase

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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.

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#379	Overall
	#155	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

Developer

Asthon Tate

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Initial release

1979

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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