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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. DolphinDB vs. Kinetica vs. OpenQM

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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.

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.dolphindb.com

www.kinetica.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Asthon Tate

DolphinDB, Inc

Kinetica

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

1979

2018

2012

1993

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

v2.00.4, January 2022

7.1, August 2021

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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