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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. dBASE vs. IBM Db2 vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

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.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.60
Rank	#247	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

www.dbase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Asthon Tate

IBM

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2017

1979

1983

host version

2021

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

12.1, October 2016

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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