DBMS > Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. KairosDB vs. Kingbase vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. KairosDB vs. Kingbase vs. OpenSearch

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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.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

drill.apache.org

www.dbase.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.kingbase.com.cn

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

kairosdb.github.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Asthon Tate

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2012

1979

2013

1999

2021

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.2.2, November 2018

V8.0, August 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C++

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users and roles

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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