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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Manticore Search

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
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.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Search engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.30
Rank#294  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score3.58
Rank#92  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.23
Rank#317  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbcloud.google.com/­bigtablemanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationAsthon TateSoftmotionsGoogleManticore Software
Initial release20121979201220152017
Current release1.20.3, January 2023dBASE 2019, 20196.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lesshostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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.nonoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.in-process shared librarygRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesC++dBase proprietary IDEActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonouser defined functions
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono
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 DBMSnoAtomic single-row operationsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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