DBMS > dBASE vs. Fauna vs. Infobright vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Fauna vs. Infobright vs. OpenSearch

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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.

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.dbase.com

fauna.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.fauna.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Asthon Tate

Fauna, Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

1979

2014

2005

2021

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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