DBMS > dBASE vs. etcd vs. GeoSpock vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. etcd vs. GeoSpock vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

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

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.

A distributed reliable key-value store

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.dbase.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

geospock.com

github.com/google/leveldb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Asthon Tate

GeoSpock

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

1979

2011

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.4, August 2019

2.0, September 2019

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JDBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

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

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

JavaScript

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session 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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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