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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenSearch vs. OrientDB vs. SwayDB

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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.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

orientdb.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

InterSystems

Amazon Web Services

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1979

2018

2021

2010

2018

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2023.3, June 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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