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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Firebolt vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SAP HANA

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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.

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.firebolt.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.firebolt.io

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Asthon Tate

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

IBM

SAP

Initial release

1979

2020

2017

2010

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Active-active shard replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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