DBMS > dBASE vs. Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb

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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.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Rank	#44	Overall
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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

opennms.github.io/newts

opentsdb.net

rocksdb.org

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Asthon Tate

OpenNMS Group

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Facebook, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1979

2014

2011

2013

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

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

yes

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

simple password-based access control

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