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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Memgraph vs. NSDb

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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.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmemgraph.comnsdb.io
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iomemgraph.com/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecture
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAsthon TateGoogleChris DavisMemgraph Ltd
Initial release19792015200620172017
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
Unix
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes inforelationships in graphsno
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 DBMSAtomic single-row operationsnoACID infowith snapshot isolationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesUsing Apache Lucene
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, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noUsers, roles and permissions
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