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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Derby vs. Hazelcast vs. HyperSQL

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptiondBase 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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A widely adopted in-memory data gridMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comdb.apache.org/­derbyhazelcast.comhsqldb.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperAsthon TateApache Software FoundationHazelcast
Initial release1979199720082001
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201910.17.1.0, November 20235.3.6, November 20232.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Java Stored Proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesJava, SQL
Triggersnoyesyes infoEventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated Mapnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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