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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. searchxml

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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 in-process key-value store

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.dbase.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Asthon Tate

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1979

1994

2015

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

18.1.40, May 2020

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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

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