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DBMS > dBASE vs. Galaxybase vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems Caché

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Galaxybase vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems Caché

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed 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.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA multi-model DBMS and application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgalaxybase.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cache
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasespotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperAsthon TateChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司SpotifyInterSystems
Initial release1979201720141997
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019Nov 20, November 20212018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJava
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemaschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEGo
Java
Python
C#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined procedures and functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
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 DBMSACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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