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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. Geode vs. NSDb vs. VelocityDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.dbase.comgeode.apache.orgnsdb.iovelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegeode.apache.org/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecturevelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperApache Software FoundationAsthon TateOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20121979200220172011
Current release1.20.3, January 2023dBASE 2019, 20191.1, February 20177.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
macOS
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
.Net
Supported programming languagesC++dBase proprietary IDE.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Java
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event ListenersCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
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 DBMSyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 sourceyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights per client and object definableBased on Windows Authentication

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