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

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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.
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.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query languageWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Object oriented DBMS
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comsplicemachine.comtypedb.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasesplicemachine.com/­how-it-workstypedb.com/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAsthon TateDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSplice MachineVaticleWakanda SAS
Initial release19792008201420162012
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20197.2.4, September 20123.1, March 20212.26.3, January 20242.7.0 (AprilĀ 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes infoJavanoyes
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding infoby using Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoby using Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeperno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
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 datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressyes
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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