DBMS > dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. MySQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Rdb

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. MySQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Rdb

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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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

CCRi and others

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

1979

2014

1995

2011

1984

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.0.0, May 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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