DBMS > dBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDFox vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDFox vs. SAP IQ

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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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
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Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Asthon Tate

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

1979

1989

2017

1994

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

6.0, Septermber 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

replication via a shared file system

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Roles, resources, and access types

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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