DBMS > dBASE vs. Dragonfly vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Dragonfly vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Splice Machine

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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 drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#255	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Asthon Tate

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

Splice Machine

Initial release

1979

2023

2018

1989

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.0, March 2023

0.8, December 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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.

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

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

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
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

JavaScript

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Lua

functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Java

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Password-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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