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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StoragedBase 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.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationAsthon TateSoftmotionsGoogleSybase, SAP
Initial release20121979201220151993
Current release1.20.3, January 2023dBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lesshostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.in-process shared librarygRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC++dBase proprietary IDEActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnoAtomic single-row operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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