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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. OpenMLDB vs. Snowflake vs. Teradata

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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.

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#359	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Asthon Tate

4 Paradigm Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

1979

2020

2014

1984

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2024-2 February 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

hosted

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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