DBMS > dBASE vs. Kinetica vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP HANA vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Kinetica vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP HANA vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza 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.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.kinetica.com

www.leanxcale.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.kinetica.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Asthon Tate

Kinetica

LeanXcale

SAP

Yanza

Initial release

1979

2012

2015

2010

2015

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.1, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Java
Scala

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

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