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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. AntDB vs. Citus vs. dBASE

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

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.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.citusdata.com

www.dbase.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

docs.citusdata.com

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

Developer

Alibaba

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Asthon Tate

Initial release

2010

1979

Current release

8.1, December 2018

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

dBase proprietary IDE

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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