DBMS > Axibase vs. dBASE vs. EsgynDB vs. RocksDB vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. dBASE vs. EsgynDB vs. RocksDB vs. Solr

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Name

Description

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

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.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Asthon Tate

Esgyn

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

1979

2015

2013

2006

Current release

15585

dBASE 2019, 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Java Stored Procedures

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

yes

optimistic locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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