DBMS > dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle 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.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

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

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

origodb.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Asthon Tate

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Microsoft

Oracle

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1979

2008

1989

2011

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.2.4, September 2012

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC

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

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

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

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Role based authorization

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