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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. HyperSQL vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

dBase 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

also known as HSQLDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

hsqldb.org

www.snowflake.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

1979

2001

2014

2020

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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