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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. Faircom EDGE vs. NSDb vs. Riak KV

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.dbase.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgensdb.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlnsdb.io/­Architecturewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperApache Software FoundationAsthon TateFairCom CorporationOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20121979197920172009
Current release1.20.3, January 2023dBASE 2019, 2019V3, October 20203.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++Java, ScalaErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexedrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC++dBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Java
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++noErlang
Triggersnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infowhen using SQLnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
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 DBMSACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
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
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users and rolesFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.yes, using Riak Security

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