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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. RethinkDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Tkrzw vs. YTsaurus

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Name

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.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Spatial extension of SQLite

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

rethinkdb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

dbmx.net/tkrzw

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Asthon Tate

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Alessandro Furieri

Mikio Hirabayashi

Yandex

Initial release

1979

2009

2008

2020

2023

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.4.1, August 2020

5.0.0, August 2020

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
macOS

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access Control Lists

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