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

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

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
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.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodboss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodboss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAsthon TateIBMPerconaTobias OetikerApache Software Foundation
Initial release19792014201519992014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.4.10-2.10, November 20171.8.0, 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableScala
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinuxHP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.no infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources..NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
proprietary protocol using JSONin-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
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
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.PL/SQL, SQL PLJavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
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 DBMSACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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.yesyes infovia In-Memory Engineyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesnono

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