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DBMS > dBASE vs. EsgynDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IRONdb vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. EsgynDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IRONdb vs. TerminusDB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.esgyn.cnwww.hawkular.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/terminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAsthon TateEsgynCommunity supported by Red HatCirconus LLC.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19792015201420172018
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019V0.10.20, January 201811.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaJavaC and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTHTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Java Stored Proceduresnoyes, in Luayes
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication between multi datacentersselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
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 DBMSACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoRole-based access control

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