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DBMS > dBASE vs. HyperSQL vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. HyperSQL vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
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 HSQLDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.dbase.comhsqldb.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAsthon TateOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesAlex Kashirin
Initial release1979200120092020
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.7.2, June 20233.2.0, December 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Java, SQLErlangno
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
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 DBMSACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Security

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