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DBMS > dBASE vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Realm vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Realm vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptiondBase 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 in-process key-value storeA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#114  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlrealm.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperAsthon TateOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release1979199420141992
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201918.1.40, May 202017, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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