DBMS > BaseX vs. CrateDB vs. dBASE vs. MariaDB vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. CrateDB vs. dBASE vs. MariaDB vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Distributed Database based on Lucene

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.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#227	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

cratedb.com/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Crate

Asthon Tate

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2007

2013

1979

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

1999

Current release

11.0, June 2024

dBASE 2019, 2019

11.3.2, February 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

dBase proprietary IDE

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

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions (Javascript)

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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