DBMS > dBASE vs. InfluxDB vs. NCache vs. SAP HANA vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. InfluxDB vs. NCache vs. SAP HANA vs. TerarkDB

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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.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#44	Overall
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Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

help.sap.com/hana

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Asthon Tate

Alachisoft

SAP

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1979

2013

2005

2010

2016

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.7.6, April 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

simple rights management via user accounts

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

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