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DBMS > dBASE vs. Memcached vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Memcached vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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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.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.memcached.orgwww.snowflake.comsqream.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.comdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperAsthon TateDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSnowflake Computing Inc.SQream TechnologiesVictoriaMetrics
Initial release19792003201420172018
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.6.27, May 20242022.1.6, December 2022v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaGo
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Proprietary protocolCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nouser defined functionsuser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyesnoneSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
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 DBMSnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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