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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Oracle Rdb vs. OushuDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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.

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

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

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.sadasengine.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.oushu.com/documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Asthon Tate

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Oushu

SADAS s.r.l.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1979

1984

2006

2009

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.4.1.1, 2021

4.0.1, August 2020

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

HP Open VMS

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

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

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

yes, on a single node

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.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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