DBMS > dBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. StarRocks vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. StarRocks vs. Yanza

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Name

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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

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

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

www.starrocks.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

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

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Asthon Tate

Microsoft

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Yanza

Initial release

1979

1989

2020

2015

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
Windows

Linux

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.

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)

JDBC
MySQL protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

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

Java

any language that supports HTTP calls

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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