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DBMS > Axibase vs. dBASE vs. Kingbase vs. MaxDB vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. dBASE vs. Kingbase vs. MaxDB vs. Memcached

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  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.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.dbase.comwww.kingbase.com.cnmaxdb.sap.comwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasemaxdb.sap.com/­documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperAxibase CorporationAsthon TateBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20131979199919842003
Current release15585dBASE 2019, 2019V8.0, August 20217.9.10.12, February 20241.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoStandard with numerous extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
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 DBMSACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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