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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. Hazelcast vs. KairosDB

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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.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.geomesa.org

hazelcast.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Asthon Tate

CCRi and others

Hazelcast

Initial release

1979

2014

2008

2013

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.0.1, July 2024

5.3.6, November 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

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