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

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

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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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
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Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.ehcache.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.ehcache.org/documentation

kairosdb.github.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1979

2009

2013

2000

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.10.0, March 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JCache

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

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)

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

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

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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