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DBMS > dBASE vs. Kinetica vs. Netezza vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Kinetica vs. Netezza vs. OpenQM

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  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.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score9.00
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#118  Relational DBMS
Score7.34
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#287  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.kinetica.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperAsthon TateKineticaIBMRocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release1979201220001993
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20197.1, August 20213.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxLinux infoincluded in applianceAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsyesyes
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
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.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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