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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. KairosDB vs. Kingbase vs. MonetDB

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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.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.kingbase.com.cnwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasekairosdb.github.iowww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperAsthon TateBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.MonetDB BV
Initial release1979201319992004
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.2.2, November 2018V8.0, August 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaC
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nouser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
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 DBMSnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 rolessimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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