DBMS > dBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. Postgres-XL vs. Splice Machine vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. Postgres-XL vs. Splice Machine vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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

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

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.postgres-xl.org

splicemachine.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Asthon Tate

Konrad von Backstrom

Splice Machine

Transwarp

Initial release

1979

2018

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

0.8, December 2018

10 R1, October 2018

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

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

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

.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

user defined functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

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