DBMS > ClickHouse vs. dBASE vs. Interbase vs. Kingbase vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. dBASE vs. Interbase vs. Kingbase vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Rank	#38	Overall
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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.dbase.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Asthon Tate

Embarcadero

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2016

1979

1984

1999

1987

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

dBASE 2019, 2019

InterBase 2020, December 2019

V8.0, August 2021

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

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

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

dBase proprietary IDE

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

none

Interbase Change Views

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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