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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. gStore vs. KairosDB vs. Netezza

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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 native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Primary database model

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

en.gstore.cn

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Asthon Tate

IBM

Initial release

1979

2016

2013

2000

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.2, November 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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