DBMS > dBASE vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.intersystems.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

InterSystems

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1979

1997

1989

2020

1987

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2018.1.4, May 2020

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
C++
Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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