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DBMS > dBASE vs. Linter vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Linter vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB vs. XTDB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
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.RDBMS for high security requirementsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.dbase.comlinter.ruwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherebytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAsthon Taterelex.ruSAP infoformerly SybaseByteDance, originally TerarkJuxt Ltd.
Initial release19791990199220162019
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201917, July 20151.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++Clojure
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
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 DBMSACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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