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DBMS > dBASE vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NSDb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NSDb 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.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storensdb.iowww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storensdb.io/­Architecturedocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperAsthon TateGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMPercona
Initial release19792004201720172015
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.03.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC and C++Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, 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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
Scala
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.user defined functionsyesnoJavaScript
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
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 DBMSACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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