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DBMS > dBASE vs. OushuDB vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. OushuDB vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#363  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.oushu.com/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesttrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAsthon TateOushuOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SCApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release1979200920112014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20194.0.1, August 20203.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 20152.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC#C++, Java
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxLinux
OS X
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 indexesyesyesrestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C++
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
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesErlangnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes
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 DBMSACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesKerberos, SSL and role based accessyes, using Riak Securitynofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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