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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. RethinkDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. SpatiaLite vs. Vertica

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  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.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLSpatial extension of SQLiteCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.42
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score9.62
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comrethinkdb.comwww.sequoiadb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaserethinkdb.com/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperAsthon TateThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Sequoiadb Ltd.Alessandro FurieriOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release19792009201320082005
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.4.1, August 20205.0.0, August 202012.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageC++C++C++C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-lessLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.JavaScriptnoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyesyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding inforange basedShardingnonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
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 DBMSAtomic single-document operationsDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infousers and table-level permissionssimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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