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DBMS > dBASE vs. Ehcache vs. KairosDB vs. Netezza vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Ehcache vs. KairosDB vs. Netezza vs. RRDtool

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  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.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.ehcache.org/­documentationkairosdb.github.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAsthon TateTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGIBMTobias Oetiker
Initial release19792009201320001999
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.10.0, March 20221.2.2, November 20181.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumeric data only
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JCacheGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyesno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
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 DBMSyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnosimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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