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DBMS > dBASE vs. DuckDB vs. Kdb vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. DuckDB vs. Kdb vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptiondBase 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.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSHigh performance Time Series DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.dbase.comduckdb.orgkx.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaseduckdb.org/­docscode.kx.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAsthon TateKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SC
Initial release197920182000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320092011
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20190.10, February 20243.6, May 20183.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++qErlangC#
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lessLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'restrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (q)nono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nouser defined functionsErlangno
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnorights management via user accountsyes, using Riak Securityno
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Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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