DBMS > dBASE vs. Dolt vs. EXASOL vs. Snowflake vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Dolt vs. EXASOL vs. Snowflake vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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.

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.exasol.com

www.snowflake.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.dolthub.com

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

DoltHub Inc

Exasol

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1979

2018

2000

2014

2009

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

CLI Client
HTTP REST

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
Lua
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

currently in alpha release

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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