DBMS > Badger vs. ClickHouse vs. dBASE vs. Raima Database Manager vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. ClickHouse vs. dBASE vs. Raima Database Manager vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

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.

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#121	Relational DBMS
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

clickhouse.com

www.dbase.com

raima.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.raima.com

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

DGraph Labs

Clickhouse Inc.

Asthon Tate

Raima Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2017

2016

1979

1984

2019

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

dBASE 2019, 2019

15, June 2021

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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