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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. MaxDB vs. Realm vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandradBase 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 robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.09
Rank#353  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score2.65
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.dbase.commaxdb.sap.comrealm.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasemaxdb.sap.com/­documentationrealm.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperRackspaceAsthon TateSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20131979198420141992
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20197.9.10.12, February 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnonoyesyes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
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 DBMSACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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