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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. EJDB vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. KairosDB

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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)Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series 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
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgeode.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgeode.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docskairosdb.github.io
DeveloperAsthon TateSoftmotionsOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Google
Initial release19792012200220152013
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.1, February 20171.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCJavaJava
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lessAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (OQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.in-process shared libraryJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonono
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 DBMSnoyes, on a single nodeAtomic single-row operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple password-based access control

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