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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Ehcache vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. NSDb

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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.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.ehcache.org

www.gbase.cn

cloud.google.com/bigtable

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.ehcache.org/documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Asthon Tate

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Initial release

1979

2009

2004

2015

2017

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.10.0, March 2022

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JCache

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Eventual 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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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