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DBMS > dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. Newts vs. OpenEdge vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. Newts vs. OpenEdge vs. Vertica

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
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.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraApplication development environment with integrated database management systemCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score3.69
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score9.62
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.geomesa.orgopennms.github.io/­newtswww.progress.com/­openedgewww.vertica.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperAsthon TateCCRi and othersOpenNMS GroupProgress Software CorporationOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release19792014201419842005
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.0.1, July 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 202012.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoclose to SQL 92Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP REST
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJavaProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyesyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersnononoyesyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
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 DBMSnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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