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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SpaceTime vs. ToroDB vs. Warp 10

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/torodb/server

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Asthon Tate

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Mireo

8Kdata

SenX

Initial release

1979

2010

2020

2016

2015

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

yes

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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