DBMS > dBASE vs. Riak KV vs. SAP HANA vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Riak KV vs. SAP HANA vs. VoltDB

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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.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

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

help.sap.com/hana

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Asthon Tate

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1979

2009

2010

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.2.0, December 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java, C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

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++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Erlang

SQLScript, R

Java

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

yes, using Riak Security

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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