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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. dBASE vs. OushuDB vs. STSdb

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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 data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

bangdb.com

www.dbase.com

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Asthon Tate

Oushu

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

1979

2011

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

dBASE 2019, 2019

4.0.1, August 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

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

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users and roles

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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