DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. dBASE vs. Hive vs. NCache vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. dBASE vs. Hive vs. NCache vs. RocksDB

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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.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.dbase.com

hive.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Asthon Tate

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Alachisoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1979

2012

2005

2013

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.1.3, April 2022

5.3.3, April 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

dBase proprietary IDE

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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