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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. HarperDB vs. JSqlDb vs. Splice Machine vs. Splunk

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB 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.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engine
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.harperdb.iojsqldb.org (offline)splicemachine.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.harperdb.io/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAsthon TateHarperDBKonrad von BackstromSplice MachineSplunk Inc.
Initial release19792017201820142003
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.1, August 20210.8, December 20183.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageNode.jsJava
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsnoyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
JavaScriptC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Custom Functions infosince release 3.1functions in JavaScriptyes infoJavayes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
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 DBMSAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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