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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. KairosDB vs. NSDb vs. Splunk

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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.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
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
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.dbase.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbnsdb.iowww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docskairosdb.github.ionsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAsthon TateGoogleSplunk Inc.
Initial release19792015201320172003
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
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)
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Java
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source 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)Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
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 operationsnonono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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