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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. dBASE vs. MySQL vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. XTDB

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Name

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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
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	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

bangdb.com

www.dbase.com

www.mysql.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Asthon Tate

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rocket Software

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

1979

1995

1985

2019

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

dBASE 2019, 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

optional

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

dBase proprietary IDE

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

U2 Basic

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, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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