DBMS > dBASE vs. GeoSpock vs. IRONdb vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GeoSpock vs. IRONdb vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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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.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

geospock.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Asthon Tate

GeoSpock

Circonus LLC.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1979

2017

2014

2016

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.0, September 2019

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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