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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. HyperSQL vs. JSqlDb vs. SpaceTime vs. Splice Machine

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comhsqldb.orgjsqldb.org (offline)www.mireo.com/­spacetimesplicemachine.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAsthon TateKonrad von BackstromMireoSplice Machine
Initial release19792001201820202014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.7.2, June 20230.8, December 20183.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
JavaScriptC#
C++
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Java, SQLfunctions in JavaScriptnoyes infoJava
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneFixed-grid hypercubesShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
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 DBMSACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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