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

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

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

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

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

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

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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	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.dbase.com

hive.apache.org

rocksdb.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Asthon Tate

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Facebook, Inc.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

1979

2012

2013

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.1.3, April 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java

dBase proprietary IDE

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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