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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. dBASE vs. Google BigQuery vs. Oracle Coherence

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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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
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Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.dbase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Asthon Tate

Google

Oracle

Initial release

2014

1979

2010

2007

Current release

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

dBASE 2019, 2019

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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