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DBMS > dBASE vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sphinx

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.sadasengine.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAsthon TatePerconaSADAS s.r.l.Sybase, SAPSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release19792015200619932001
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.4.10-2.10, November 20178.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2commercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.proprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEActionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.JavaScriptnoyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
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 DBMSnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovia In-Memory Engineyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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