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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. Manticore Search vs. Riak TS

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSdBase 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.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.dbase.commanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasemanual.manticoresearch.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperAltibaseAsthon TateDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerManticore SoftwareOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release19991979200820172015
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023dBASE 2019, 20197.2.4, September 20126.0, February 20233.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++Erlang
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanno
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.noCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
dBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Java
PHP
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nouser defined functionsErlang
Triggersyesnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnono

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