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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. EJDB vs. KairosDB vs. YTsaurus

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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.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

kairosdb.github.io

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Asthon Tate

Softmotions

Yandex

Initial release

1979

2012

2013

2023

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

in-process shared library

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

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

Read/Write Locking

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

simple password-based access control

Access Control Lists

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