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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. PostGIS vs. Riak TS vs. Solr

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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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.dbase.compostgis.netsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasepostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAsthon TateOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software Foundation
Initial release1979200520152006
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.4.2, February 20243.0.0, September 20229.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCErlangJava
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes, limitedSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
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
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsErlangJava plugins
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infolinks between datasets 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 DBMSACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 PostgreSQLnoyes

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