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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.

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#38	Overall
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Score	75.97
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Asthon Tate

Teradata

Initial release

1979

1984

Current release

dBASE PLUS 11, December 2016

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

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Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows info

dBase Pro

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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 info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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