DBMS > dBASE vs. Memcached vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak TS vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Memcached vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak TS vs. SpatiaLite

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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.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.memcached.org

rethinkdb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

rethinkdb.com/docs

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

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1979

2003

2009

2015

2008

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.6.29, June 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

3.0.0, September 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Erlang

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

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

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

users and table-level permissions

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