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DBMS > dBASE vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Quasardb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Quasardb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server 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.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.gridgain.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsquasar.aiwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAsthon TateGridGain Systems, Inc.MicrosoftquasardbSybase, SAP
Initial release19792007201620091993
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019GridGain 8.5.13.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Transact SQLnoyes
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)yesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyes
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 DBMSACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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