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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Db2 vs. Memcached vs. OpenMLDB

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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.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingAn open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Relational 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
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.02
Rank#367  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.memcached.orgopenmldb.ai
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2github.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­main
DeveloperAsthon TateGoogleIBMDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal4 Paradigm Inc.
Initial release197920151983 infohost version20032020
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201912.1, October 20161.6.25, March 20242024-2 February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++CC++, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
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)
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Proprietary protocolJDBC
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyesnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
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 operationsACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
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)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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