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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. EXASOL vs. MarkLogic vs. Snowflake

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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.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score6.50
Rank#56  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#5  Search engines
Score123.20
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.exasol.comwww.marklogic.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.marklogic.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAsthon TateExasolMarkLogic Corp.Snowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release1979200020012014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201911.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL92yes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources..Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
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 DBMSACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, with Range Indexesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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