DBMS > dBASE vs. Ehcache vs. Memgraph vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Ehcache vs. Memgraph vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata

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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.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
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Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	44.69
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Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.ehcache.org

memgraph.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.ehcache.org/documentation

memgraph.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.teradata.com

Social network pages

Developer

Asthon Tate

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Memgraph Ltd

SAP

Teradata

Initial release

1979

2009

2017

2010

1984

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.10.0, March 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JCache

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

SQLScript, R

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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, roles and permissions

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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