DBMS > dBASE vs. IRONdb vs. Riak KV vs. SQLite vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. IRONdb vs. Riak KV vs. SQLite vs. STSdb

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Name

IRONdb 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.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.sqlite.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

Circonus LLC.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Dwayne Richard Hipp

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1979

2017

2009

2000

2011

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.2.0, December 2022

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Linux
OS X

server-less

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes, in Lua

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

via file-system locks

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

yes, using Riak Security

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