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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. dBASE vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

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 resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.81
Rank	#108	Overall
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Score	14.38
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#324	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.dbase.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Asthon Tate

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

1979

1987

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

dBASE 2019, 2019

Transbase 8.4, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

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

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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