DBMS > dBASE vs. MySQL vs. Riak TS vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. MySQL vs. Riak TS vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.mysql.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

dev.mysql.com/doc

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

Developer

Asthon Tate

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Transwarp

Initial release

1979

1995

2015

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

9.0.0, July 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

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

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.

yes

proprietary syntax

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

links between datasets can be stored

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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