DBMS > dBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. MarkLogic vs. OpenSearch vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. MarkLogic vs. OpenSearch 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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.progress.com/marklogic

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Asthon Tate

Konrad von Backstrom

MarkLogic Corp.

Amazon Web Services

Splice Machine

Initial release

1979

2018

2001

2021

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

0.8, December 2018

11.0, December 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

functions in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

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, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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

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