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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. FeatureBase vs. KairosDB vs. Sphinx

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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.Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.featurebase.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.featurebase.comkairosdb.github.iosphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAsthon TateMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release1979201720132001
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192022, May 20221.2.2, November 20183.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL queriesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
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 DBMSyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple password-based access controlno

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