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DBMS > dBASE vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. Trafodion

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Spatial extension of H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.h2database.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.kinetica.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.kinetica.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAsthon TateThomas MuellerCNRSKineticaApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19792005201320122014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.2.220, July 20237.1, August 20212.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJavaJavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infobased on H2user defined functionsJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infobased on H2Source-replica replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes
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 DBMSACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2Access rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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