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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. gStore vs. JaguarDB vs. JSqlDb vs. Splice Machine

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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 native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Asthon Tate

DataJaguar, Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

Splice Machine

Initial release

1979

2016

2015

2018

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.2, November 2023

3.3 July 2023

0.8, December 2018

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

functions in JavaScript

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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