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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. dBASE vs. Heroic vs. ReductStore vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.dbase.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.reduct.store/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Asthon Tate

Spotify

ReductStore LLC

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2013

1979

2014

2023

2019

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.9, March 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Rust

Clojure

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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 Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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