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DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Datomic vs. dBASE vs. Elasticsearch

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Datomic vs. dBASE vs. Elasticsearch

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitydBase 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, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Websitecachelot.iowww.datomic.comwww.dbase.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearch
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
DeveloperCognitectAsthon TateElastic
Initial release2015201219792010
Current release1.0.7075, December 2023dBASE 2019, 20198.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD Licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoElastic License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Java, ClojureJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolRESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
dBase proprietary IDE.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoES-Hadoop Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and roles

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