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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. LeanXcale vs. ScyllaDB vs. YTsaurus

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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 highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.scylladb.com

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Asthon Tate

LeanXcale

ScyllaDB

Yandex

Initial release

1979

2015

2023

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
Java
Scala

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes, Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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.

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access Control Lists

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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