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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Axibase vs. dBASE vs. NSDb vs. Trino

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.10
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.dbase.com

nsdb.io

trino.io

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

nsdb.io/Architecture

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Axibase Corporation

Asthon Tate

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2013

1979

2017

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

15585

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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 fields are automatically indexed

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C++

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Using Apache Lucene

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users and roles

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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