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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

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.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Asthon Tate

CCRi and others

Initial release

2014

1979

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.0.0, May 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

ACID

MVCC

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.

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Access rights for users and roles

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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