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DBMS > dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. searchxml

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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.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.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Serverless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitewww.dbase.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAsthon TateDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHyprcubd, Inc.Actian Corporationinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release197920081974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2015
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20197.2.4, September 201211.2, May 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++GoCC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCgRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Java
PHP
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyesyes infoon the application server
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres Replicatoryes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
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 DBMSACIDnoACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes infoMVCCyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPtoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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