DBMS > dBASE vs. Lovefield vs. Riak TS vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Lovefield vs. Riak TS vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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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 relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

google.github.io/lovefield

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Asthon Tate

Google

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Tobias Oetiker

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

1979

2014

2015

1999

1987

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

3.0.0, September 2022

1.8.0, 2022

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C and C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X

HP-UX
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

in-process shared library
Pipes

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Erlang

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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