DBMS > Couchbase vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

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.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.dbase.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Asthon Tate

Google

Oracle

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2011

1979

2015

2007

2019

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

14.1, August 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

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

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

dBase proprietary IDE

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

.Net
C++
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Live Events

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

none

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Atomic single-row operations

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

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