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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. H2GIS vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. MonetDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  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.Spatial extension of H2Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.monetdb.orgwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperAsthon TateCNRSCommunity supported by Red HatMonetDB BVSybase, SAP
Initial release19792013201420041993
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP RESTJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJavaGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infobased on H2noyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on H2selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
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 DBMSACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on H2nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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