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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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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.

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	14.38
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Score	23.12
Rank	#35	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#359	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1979

2014

2011

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.3.0, June 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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