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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Datomic vs. dBASE vs. Dragonfly vs. EJDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Datomic vs. dBASE vs. Dragonfly vs. EJDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitydBase 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.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.datomic.comwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.datomic.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.dragonflydb.io/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.md
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCognitectAsthon TateDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSoftmotions
Initial release20122012197920232012
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0.7075, December 2023dBASE 2019, 20191.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGPLv2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linuxserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesscheme-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_id
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocolin-process shared library
Supported programming languagesC++Clojure
Java
dBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoTransaction Functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Luano
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoRead/Write Locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoAccess rights for users and rolesPassword-based authenticationno

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