DBMS > dBASE vs. GigaSpaces vs. Interbase vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GigaSpaces vs. Interbase vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.gigaspaces.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.snowflake.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

Gigaspaces Technologies

Embarcadero

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1979

2000

1984

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

15.5, September 2020

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++, Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Interbase Change Views

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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