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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. DuckDB vs. JSqlDb vs. Netezza

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it 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.

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

duckdb.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

duckdb.org/docs

Developer

Asthon Tate

Konrad von Backstrom

IBM

Initial release

1979

2018

2000

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.0.0, June 2024

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

JavaScript

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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