jBASE

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jBASE is a multivalue database system.

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jBASE was released in 1991 by a small company in the UK, then named James Anthony Consultants,(JAC), later to become jBASE Software Limited. Formed March 6th 1989 by Martin James Idle and Clive Anthony Ketteridge the company grew globally throughout the 1990s. On December 1st 1999, jBASE Software Limited and its subsidiaries were acquired 100% by the TEMENOS Group AG, a Swiss based Banking Software House. jBASE was originally written by ex Microdata/McDonnel Douglas engineers and supported the MultiValue datamodel by default. However jBASE is unique in that it was designed from day one to allow the application data to reside in any database not just its own. Further jBASE compiles applications to native machine code form, rather than to an intermediate byte code.

jBASE is used in thousands of applications globally not least by TEMENOS with their TEMENOS GLOBUS and TEMENOS T24 banking applications.