DBMS > dBASE vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. OpenSearch vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. OpenSearch vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Spark SQL

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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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.37
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Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

IBM

Amazon Web Services

Percona

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1979

2014

2021

2015

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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Typical application scenarios

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