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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GigaSpaces vs. HBase vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb

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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.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Asthon Tate

Gigaspaces Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1979

2000

2008

2013

2011

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

15.5, September 2020

2.3.4, January 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency or Eventual 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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

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

Role-based access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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