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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. CouchDB vs. dBASE vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

couchdb.apache.org

www.dbase.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Asthon Tate

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2010

2005

1979

2015

2010

Current release

8.1, December 2018

3.3.3, December 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data 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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

View functions in JavaScript

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single document possible

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

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