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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. dBASE vs. FatDB vs. IBM Db2

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality datadBase 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.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score123.05
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.dbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsAsthon TateFatCloudIBM
Initial release2012197920121983 infohost version
Current release30.0.0, June 2024dBASE 2019, 201912.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialcommercial infofree version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
WindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnono infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources..NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
dBase proprietary IDEC#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infovia applicationsyes
Triggersnonoyes infovia applicationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Version
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneselectable replication factoryes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
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 DBMSnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users and rolesno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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