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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiriDB vs. Yanza

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptiondBase 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.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Open Source Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.jaguardb.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssiridb.comyanza.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperAsthon TateDataJaguar, Inc.MicrosoftCesbitYanza
Initial release19792015199220172015
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.3 July 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++C
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric datano
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesrights management via user accountsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003simple rights management via user accountsno

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