DBMS > Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SQLite vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SQLite vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

dBase 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.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.dbase.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.sqlite.org

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Asthon Tate

Google

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2012

1979

2015

2000

2017

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

server-less

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C++

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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