DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

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.

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.dbase.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Asthon Tate

Google

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

1979

2017

2011

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

dBASE 2019, 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

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