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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. dBASE vs. InfinityDB vs. KeyDB vs. TimesTen

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationdBase 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 Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.dbase.comboilerbay.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaseboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.keydb.devdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAxibase CorporationAsthon TateBoiler Bay Inc.EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20131979200220191998
Current release15585dBASE 2019, 20194.011 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrayspartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEJavaC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noLuaPL/SQL
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnosimple password-based access control and ACLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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