DBMS > dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. Memcached vs. OpenSearch vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. Memcached vs. OpenSearch vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.memcached.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

opensearch.org/docs/latest

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Asthon Tate

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Amazon Web Services

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1979

2008

2003

2021

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.2.4, September 2012

1.6.27, May 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC

Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

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