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DBMS > dBASE vs. GeoSpock vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GeoSpock vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. OpenQM

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopCloud-based data warehousing serviceQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebase
DeveloperAsthon TateGeoSpockHypertable Inc.IBMRocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release1979200920141993
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.0, September 20190.9.8.11, March 20163.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyesno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCC++ API
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoPL/SQL, SQL PLyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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