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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. NCache vs. Qdrant vs. STSdb

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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.Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperAsthon TateAlachisoftQdrantSTS Soft SC
Initial release1979200520212011
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.3.3, April 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaRustC#
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and CounterNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.nono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.no infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRno
Triggersnoyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, with selectable consistency levelCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
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 DBMSoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Key-based authenticationno
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dBASENCacheQdrantSTSdb
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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