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

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

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engineKey-value store
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/sphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAsthon TateCirconus LLC.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release19792017200920012011
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019V0.10.20, January 20183.2.0, December 20223.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++ErlangC++C#
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnonoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnorestrictedyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes, in LuaErlangnono
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storednono
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 DBMSnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoyes, using Riak Securitynono

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