DBMS > Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. DuckDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. DuckDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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.

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.dbase.com

duckdb.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

duckdb.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Rackspace

Asthon Tate

Microsoft

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2013

1979

2018

2014

2008

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

0.10, February 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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