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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. PostGIS vs. Riak KV vs. Rockset vs. Teradata

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.compostgis.netrockset.comwww.teradata.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasepostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.rockset.comdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperAsthon TateOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesRocksetTeradata
Initial release19792005200920191984
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.4.2, February 20243.2.0, December 2022Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCErlangC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
hostedhosted
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnodynamic typingyes
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.yesnono infoingestion from XML files supportedyes
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedall fields are automatically indexedyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC 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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsErlangnoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic shardingSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno 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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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