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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Firebolt vs. JSqlDb vs. Splice Machine vs. VelocityDB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.firebolt.iojsqldb.org (offline)splicemachine.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.firebolt.iosplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAsthon TateFirebolt Analytics Inc.Konrad von BackstromSplice MachineVelocityDB Inc
Initial release19792020201820142011
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20190.8, December 20183.1, March 20217.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC#
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources..Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nofunctions in JavaScriptyes infoJavano
TriggersnononoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layernoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
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 DBMSACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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