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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. InfluxDB vs. Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sequoiadb

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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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewopennms.github.io/­newtsopentsdb.netwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAsthon TateOpenNMS Groupcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release19792013201420112013
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Telnet API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nononoJavaScript
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
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 DBMSnononoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accountsnonosimple password-based access control
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