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

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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.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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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	0.73
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.dbase.com

www.mcobject.com

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Axibase Corporation

Asthon Tate

McObject

Initial release

2012

2013

1979

2001

2017

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

15585

dBASE 2019, 2019

8.2, 2021

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like query language

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.

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C++

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users and roles

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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