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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. NSDb vs. Warp 10 vs. XTDB

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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.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.dbase.com

nsdb.io

www.warp10.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Asthon Tate

SenX

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1979

2017

2015

2019

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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