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DBMS > dBASE vs. openGauss vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. openGauss vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Riak KV 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.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiWidely used in-process key-value storeDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.dbase.comgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
docs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAsthon TateHuawei and openGauss communityOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SC
Initial release19792019199420092011
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.0, March 202218.1.40, May 20203.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)ErlangC#
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes 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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL 2011yes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Java
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesnoErlangno
Triggersnoyesyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)noneSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
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 DBMSACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoyes, using Riak Securityno

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