DBMS > BoltDB vs. dBASE vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. dBASE vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. YottaDB

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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.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

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

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.dbase.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

rocksdb.org

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Asthon Tate

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Facebook, Inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2013

1979

1984

2013

2001

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.4.1.1, 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

HP Open VMS

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

C++ API
Java API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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.

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

yes, on a single node

yes

optimistic locking

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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