DBMS > Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. etcd vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. etcd vs. SAP HANA

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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.

A distributed reliable key-value store

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	7.05
Rank	#53	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.dbase.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Rackspace

Asthon Tate

SAP

Initial release

2013

1979

2010

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.4, August 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Appliance or cloud-service

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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