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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. dBASE vs. Dragonfly vs. Sadas Engine

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Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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 drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.dbase.com

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Asthon Tate

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

1979

2023

2006

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.0, March 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

scheme-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Lua

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users and roles

Password-based authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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