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DBMS > dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Infobright vs. KairosDB vs. Netezza

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Infobright vs. KairosDB vs. Netezza

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparison
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.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score3.58
Rank#92  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.00
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score10.18
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comcloud.google.com/­bigtableignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezza
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docskairosdb.github.io
DeveloperAsthon TateGoogleIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.IBM
Initial release19792015200520132000
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoincluded in appliance
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnoyes
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
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nononoyes
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
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 operationsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
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-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiessimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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