DBMS > dBASE vs. JaguarDB vs. MySQL vs. Quasardb vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. JaguarDB vs. MySQL vs. Quasardb vs. SQream DB

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Name

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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Widely used open source RDBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Asthon Tate

DataJaguar, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

quasardb

SQream Technologies

Initial release

1979

2015

1995

2009

2017

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.3 July 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and C++

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

consistent hashing

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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