DBMS > Axibase vs. dBASE vs. FatDB vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. dBASE vs. FatDB vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.dbase.com

rocksdb.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Asthon Tate

FatCloud

Facebook, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

1979

2012

2013

2020

Current release

15585

dBASE 2019, 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via applications

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

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

yes

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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