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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. GBase vs. InfinityDB

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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.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Rackspace

Asthon Tate

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

2013

1979

2004

2002

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

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

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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