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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. EDB Postgres vs. InterSystems Caché vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. EDB Postgres vs. InterSystems Caché vs. NSDb

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StoragedBase 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.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A multi-model DBMS and application serverScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.dbase.comwww.enterprisedb.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachensdb.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.intersystems.comnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperApache Software FoundationAsthon TateEnterpriseDBInterSystems
Initial release20121979200519972017
Current release1.20.3, January 2023dBASE 2019, 201914, December 20212018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++dBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Java
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesno
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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