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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. FileMaker vs. Kdb vs. Milvus vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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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.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.High performance Time Series DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerkx.commilvus.iowww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcode.kx.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperAsthon TateClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcPercona
Initial release197919832000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320192015
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201919.4.1, November 20213.6, May 20182.3.4, January 20243.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageqC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'noyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (q)nono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEPHPC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesuser defined functionsnoJavaScript
Triggersnoyesyes infowith viewsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
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 DBMSnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesrights management via user accountsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and roles
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Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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