DBMS > dBASE vs. Firebolt vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Firebolt vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Teradata

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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.

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.firebolt.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.firebolt.io

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Asthon Tate

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

IBM

Microsoft

Teradata

Initial release

1979

2020

2017

2014

1984

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.0

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

hosted

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

JavaScript

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Active-active shard replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate 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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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