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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Hive vs. InfluxDB vs. MonetDB vs. Trafodion

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded 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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score62.59
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comhive.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.monetdb.orgtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAsthon TateApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMonetDB BVApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19792012201320042014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.1.3, April 20222.7.6, April 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoCC++, Java
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes, in SQL, C, RJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
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 DBMSnonoACIDACID
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.yes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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dBASEHiveInfluxDBMonetDBTrafodion
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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