DBMS > dBASE vs. EXASOL vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. EXASOL vs. Snowflake

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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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.27
Rank	#103	Overall
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Website

www.dbase.com

www.exasol.com/en/products

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.exasol.com/en/community/resources

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

Exasol

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1979

2000

2014

Current release

dBASE PLUS 11, December 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

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Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows info

dBase Pro

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

.Net
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
Lua
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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 info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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