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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. H2 vs. YottaDB

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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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Rackspace

Asthon Tate

Thomas Mueller

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2013

1979

2005

2001

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

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

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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