DBMS > dBASE vs. jBASE vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. jBASE vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SiteWhere

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SAP, Sybase

SiteWhere

Initial release

1979

1991

1987

2010

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.7

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

DB-Engines Ranking coverage expanded to 169 database management systems
3 June 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

AIHA and dBase Media Launch Season Two of Healthier Workplaces, A Healthier World, an Occupational and ...
13 June 2024, businesswire.com

30 Years Ago: The Rise, Fall and Survival of Ashton-Tate's dBASE
19 September 2013, eWeek

Microsoft Access 2016 Now Supports dBase Database Format
7 September 2016, redmondmag.com

A malicious document could lead to RCE in Apache OpenOffice (CVE-2021-33035)
22 September 2021, Help Net Security

WFP DBase (Logistics Data, Budgets and Systems Execution) Factsheet (November 2019) - World
23 December 2019, ReliefWeb

provided by Google News

Temenos signs first customer in India
24 August 2009, Finextra

provided by Google News

Achieve zero RPO for your SAP ASE (Sybase) databases with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP | Amazon Web Services
7 May 2024, AWS Blog

New Services for SAP HANA Cloud Database
7 April 2021, SAP News

Patch SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise now to avoid takeover risk
3 June 2020, BleepingComputer

AWS Launch Wizard is now available in Melbourne, Spain, and Zurich Regions
26 January 2024, AWS Blog

Newly Patched SAP ASE Flaws Could Let Attackers Hack Database Servers
3 June 2020, The Hacker News

provided by Google News

SiteWhere: An open platform for connected devices
11 July 2017, Open Source For You

11 Best Open source IoT Platforms To Develop Smart Projects
9 March 2023, H2S Media

provided by Google News

Share this page