DBMS > dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. KairosDB vs. Netezza vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. KairosDB vs. Netezza vs. SAP HANA

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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.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	10.18
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

dgraph.io

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

dgraph.io/docs

kairosdb.github.io

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Asthon Tate

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

IBM

SAP

Initial release

1979

2016

2013

2000

2010

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.2.2, November 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

ACID

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

Planned for future releases

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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