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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. EJDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Splice Machine

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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.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.geomesa.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAsthon TateSoftmotionsCCRi and othersOracleSplice Machine
Initial release19792012201420112014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.0.0, May 202423.3, December 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCScalaJavaJava
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lessLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesoptionalyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.in-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nononoyes infoJava
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonedepending on storage layerShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonedepending on storage layerElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyeswith Hadoop integrationYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyes
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 DBMSnonoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.depending on storage layeryes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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