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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake

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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.Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comrocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAsthon TateFacebook, Inc.SAP infoformerly SybaseSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release1979201319922014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20198.11.4, April 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perluser defined functions
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
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 DBMSyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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