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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. dBASE vs. Graph Engine vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

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

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.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.dbase.com

www.graphengine.io

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

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

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Alibaba

Asthon Tate

Microsoft

Initial release

1979

2010

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

.NET

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Access rights for users and roles

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