DBMS > Badger vs. dBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. dBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.dbase.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

sqream.com

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.sqream.com

Developer

DGraph Labs

Asthon Tate

Microsoft

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2017

1979

1989

2017

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

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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