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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. KairosDB vs. Sphinx vs. TDengine

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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 H2Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasekairosdb.github.iosphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAsthon TateSphinx Technologies Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release1979201320012019
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.2.2, November 20183.5.1, February 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonono
Triggersnononoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
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 DBMSnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
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 controlnoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
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Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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