DBMS > dBASE vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. NCache

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Name

Description

dBase 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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Spatial extension of H2

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.kinetica.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Asthon Tate

Thomas Mueller

CNRS

Kinetica

Alachisoft

Initial release

1979

2005

2013

2012

2005

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.2.220, July 2023

7.1, August 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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