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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. FeatureBase vs. Splunk vs. STSdb

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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.

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#296	Overall
	#134	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

www.featurebase.com

www.splunk.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.featurebase.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Asthon Tate

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Splunk Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1979

2017

2003

2011

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2022, May 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL queries

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual 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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

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

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