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DBMS > dBASE vs. Derby vs. Hyprcubd vs. RethinkDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Derby vs. Hyprcubd vs. RethinkDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Serverless Time Series DBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comdb.apache.org/­derbyhyprcubd.com (offline)rethinkdb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAsthon TateApache Software FoundationHyprcubd, Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Alessandro Furieri
Initial release1979199720092008
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201910.17.1.0, November 20232.4.1, August 20205.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCgRPC (https)
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJavaC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Java Stored Proceduresnono
TriggersnoyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
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 DBMSACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardtoken accessyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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