DBMS > Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. InterSystems Caché vs. NSDb vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. InterSystems Caché vs. NSDb vs. SQLite

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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 multi-model DBMS and application server

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.dbase.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

nsdb.io

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.intersystems.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Asthon Tate

InterSystems

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

1979

1997

2017

2000

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

2018.1.4, May 2020

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C++

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
C++
Java

Java
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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