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DBMS > dBASE vs. mSQL vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. mSQL vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splunk

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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.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score93.02
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.dbase.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.sequoiadb.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAsthon TateHughes TechnologiesSequoiadb Ltd.Splunk Inc.
Initial release1979199420132003
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20194.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noJavaScriptyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
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 DBMSnoDocument is locked during a transactionno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnosimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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