DBMS > Altibase vs. dBASE vs. Hypertable vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. dBASE vs. Hypertable vs. RocksDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

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

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

www.dbase.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Altibase

Asthon Tate

Hypertable Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1999

1979

2009

2013

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

0.9.8.11, March 2016

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

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++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

C++ API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

dBase proprietary IDE

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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.