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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Firebolt vs. RocksDB vs. Splice Machine

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#44	Overall
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Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.firebolt.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Asthon Tate

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Splice Machine

Initial release

1979

2020

2013

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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

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