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DBMS > dBASE vs. Ingres vs. mSQL vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Ingres vs. mSQL vs. Splunk

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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.Well established RDBMSmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreshughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAsthon TateActian CorporationHughes TechnologiesSplunk Inc.
Initial release19791974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19942003
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201911.2, May 20224.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources..NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneIngres ReplicatornoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
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 DBMSACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCnoyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles

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