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DBMS > dBASE vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiteWhere vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiteWhere vs. TerarkDB

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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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAsthon TateIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SiteWhereByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release1979201020102016
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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 indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP RESTC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
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 DBMSno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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