DBMS > dBASE vs. EXASOL vs. HBase vs. MySQL vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. EXASOL vs. HBase vs. MySQL vs. RethinkDB

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Name

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.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Widely used open source RDBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.exasol.com/resources

hbase.apache.org/book.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Asthon Tate

Exasol

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

1979

2000

2008

1995

2009

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.3.4, January 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

MVCC based

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

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

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