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DBMS > dBASE vs. PlanetScale vs. Prometheus vs. Trafodion vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. PlanetScale vs. Prometheus vs. Trafodion vs. Valentina Server

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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.Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.complanetscale.comprometheus.iotrafodion.apache.orgwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaseplanetscale.com/­docsprometheus.io/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAsthon TatePlanetScaleApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPParadigma Software
Initial release19792020201520141999
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.3.0, February 20195.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoGoC++, Java
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.no infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infoproprietary syntaxnoJava Stored Proceduresyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby Federationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyesyes
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 DBMSACID at shard levelnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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