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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. searchxml

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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.

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.dbase.com

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

www.sadasengine.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

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

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

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Asthon Tate

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SADAS s.r.l.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1979

1984

2006

2015

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.4.1.1, 2021

8.0

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

HP Open VMS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

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

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

yes, on a single node

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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

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

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