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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Badger vs. dBASE vs. VoltDB

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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.

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational 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	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.dbase.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Axibase Corporation

DGraph Labs

Asthon Tate

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2013

2017

1979

2010

Current release

15585

dBASE 2019, 2019

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

only a subset of SQL 99

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
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Java

Triggers

yes

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

Multi-source replication
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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

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

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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