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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. KeyDB vs. MonetDB vs. OpenQM vs. YugabyteDB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#219  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#99  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.monetdb.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.keydb.devwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperAsthon TateEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.MonetDB BVRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsYugabyte Inc.
Initial release19792019200419932017
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.4-122.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC and C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptionsdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Luayes, in SQL, C, Ryesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding via remote tablesyesHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
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 DBMSOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACIDACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple password-based access control and ACLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes
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dBASEKeyDBMonetDBOpenQM infoalso called QMYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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