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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Firebird vs. Spark SQL vs. StarRocks vs. Transbase

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
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.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.firebirdsql.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.starrocks.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAsthon TateFirebird FoundationApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release19792000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420201987
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.0.0, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.5.3, March 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++ScalaC++, JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.PSQLnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes, utilizing Spark Corehorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
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 DBMSACIDnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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