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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

blueflood.io

www.dbase.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Rackspace

Asthon Tate

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2013

1979

2014

2009

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.2.0, December 2022

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Erlang

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

via views

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

selectable replication factor

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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