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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. dBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. NSDb vs. Splice Machine

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.31
Rank	#159	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

nsdb.io/Architecture

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Asthon Tate

Konrad von Backstrom

Splice Machine

Initial release

2018

1979

2018

2017

2014

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

0.8, December 2018

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

Java
Scala

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

functions in JavaScript

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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