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DBMS > dBASE vs. Dragonfly vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Dragonfly vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed 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.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA multi-model DBMS and application serverA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAsthon TateDragonflyDB team and community contributorsInterSystemsAlex KashirinTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19792023199720201987
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.0, March 20232018.1.4, May 20200.5, April 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesscheme-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C#
C++
Java
C++C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Luayesnoyes
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
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 DBMSAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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