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DBMS > dBASE vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. JSqlDb vs. Kingbase

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. JSqlDb vs. Kingbase

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  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.A widely adopted in-memory data gridDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comhazelcast.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storejsqldb.org (offline)www.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperAsthon TateHazelcastIBMKonrad von BackstromBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release19792008201720181999
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.3.6, November 20232.00.8, December 2018V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and Java
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyesfunctions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infoEventsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoReplicated MapActive-active shard replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
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 DBMSone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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