DBMS > BoltDB vs. dBASE vs. etcd vs. RocksDB vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. dBASE vs. etcd vs. RocksDB vs. TDengine

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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.

A distributed reliable key-value store

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.dbase.com

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

rocksdb.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Asthon Tate

Facebook, Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2013

1979

2013

2019

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.4, August 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

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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