DBMS > dBASE vs. Qdrant vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Qdrant vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb

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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.

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

qdrant.tech/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Asthon Tate

Qdrant

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1979

2021

2009

2013

2011

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.2.0, December 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Collection-level replication

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

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

Key-based authentication

yes, using Riak Security

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