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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. DuckDB vs. HyperSQL vs. KairosDB vs. OpenMLDB

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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.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#359  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comduckdb.orghsqldb.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbopenmldb.ai
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaseduckdb.org/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlkairosdb.github.ioopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­main
DeveloperAsthon Tate4 Paradigm Inc.
Initial release19792018200120132020
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.0.0, June 20242.7.2, June 20231.2.2, November 20182024-2 February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lessAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeFixed schema
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noJava, SQLnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
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 DBMSACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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