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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GridGain vs. InterSystems Caché vs. KairosDB vs. ObjectBox

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA multi-model DBMS and application serverDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.gridgain.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbobjectbox.io
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.intersystems.comkairosdb.github.iodocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperAsthon TateGridGain Systems, Inc.InterSystemsObjectBox Limited
Initial release19792007199720132017
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019GridGain 8.5.12018.1.4, May 20201.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesnono
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
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 DBMSACIDACIDnoACID
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access controlyes
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