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DBMS > dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. GigaSpaces vs. Interbase vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. GigaSpaces vs. Interbase vs. Trafodion

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasetrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasetrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAsthon TateDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGigaspaces TechnologiesEmbarcaderoApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19792008200019842014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20197.2.4, September 201215.5, September 2020InterBase 2020, December 20192.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .NetCC++, Java
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes, event driven architectureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Interbase Change Viewsyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
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 DBMSACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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