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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Badger vs. dBASE vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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.

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#325	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	3.47
Rank	#93	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.dbase.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Axibase Corporation

DGraph Labs

Asthon Tate

Rocket Software

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2013

2017

1979

1985

2011

Current release

15585

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

optional

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

.Net

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

configurable

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

Based on Windows Authentication

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