DBMS > CrateDB vs. dBASE vs. Riak TS vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. dBASE vs. Riak TS vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Database based on Lucene

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.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.69
Rank	#226	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#11	Vector DBMS

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

cratedb.com

www.dbase.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Crate

Asthon Tate

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Transwarp

Initial release

2013

1979

2015

Current release

5.8.1, August 2024

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

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

yes

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

dBase proprietary IDE

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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