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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. NCache vs. Postgres-XL 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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.postgres-xl.org

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Asthon Tate

Konrad von Backstrom

Alachisoft

Splice Machine

Initial release

1979

2018

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

0.8, December 2018

5.3.3, April 2024

10 R1, October 2018

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

MVCC

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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