DBMS > dBASE vs. Oracle vs. searchxml vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Oracle vs. searchxml vs. SiteWhere

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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.

Widely used RDBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

Oracle

informationpartners gmbh

SiteWhere

Initial release

1979

1980

2015

2010

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

23c, September 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

multiple readers, single writer

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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