DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SQLite

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.dbase.com

www.geomesa.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

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

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Asthon Tate

CCRi and others

InterSystems

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

1979

2014

2018

2000

Current release

1703

dBASE 2019, 2019

4.0.5, February 2024

2023.3, June 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

depending on used data model

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users and roles

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

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