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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. STSdb vs. YTsaurus

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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.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Asthon Tate

IBM

STS Soft SC

Yandex

Initial release

1979

2017

2011

2023

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active-active shard replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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