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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. InfinityDB vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb vs. Transbase

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb 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 Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceWell established RDBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comboilerbay.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaseboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAsthon TateBoiler Bay Inc.Actian CorporationCirconus LLC.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release197920021974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20171987
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20194.011.2, May 2022V0.10.20, January 2018Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyesyes, in Luayes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneIngres Replicatorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnoyes
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 DBMSACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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