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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQLite vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.sadasengine.com

www.sqlite.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

Google

acquired by Google 2014

SADAS s.r.l.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1979

2012

2006

2000

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

8.0

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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