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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. dBASE vs. Interbase vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.dbase.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Asthon Tate

Embarcadero

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2013

1979

1984

2014

Current release

15585

dBASE 2019, 2019

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Interbase Change Views

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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 rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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