DBMS > dBASE vs. EsgynDB vs. NuoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. EsgynDB vs. NuoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

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.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

rocksdb.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

doc.nuodb.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Asthon Tate

Esgyn

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

1979

2015

2013

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Java Stored Procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

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

tunable commit protocol

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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