DBMS > dBASE vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP IQ vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP IQ vs. Vitess

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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.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

github.com/google/leveldb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

vitess.io

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Asthon Tate

Google

Microsoft

SAP, formerly Sybase

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

1979

2011

2014

1994

2013

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.23, February 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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