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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle Rdb

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperAsthon TateCCRi and othersCirconus LLC.Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release1979201420171984
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20194.0.5, February 2024V0.10.20, January 20187.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxHP Open VMS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes, in Lua
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
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 DBMSnonoyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno

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