DBMS > dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. MySQL vs. Splice Machine vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. MySQL vs. Splice Machine vs. WakandaDB

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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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#255	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

dev.mysql.com/doc

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Asthon Tate

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Splice Machine

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1979

2008

1995

2014

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.2.4, September 2012

8.3.0, January 2024

3.1, March 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Java
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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

yes

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