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DBMS > dBASE vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. Qdrant vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. Qdrant vs. Sequoiadb

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and 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.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.kinetica.comqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAsthon TateHypertable Inc.KineticaQdrantSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release19792009201220212013
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20190.9.8.11, March 20167.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++RustC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nouser defined functionsJavaScript
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationCollection-level replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
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 DBMSnonoDocument is locked during a transaction
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 infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelKey-based authenticationsimple password-based access control

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