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DBMS > dBASE vs. Riak KV vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Valentina Server vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Riak KV vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Valentina Server vs. Yaacomo

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
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.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilitiesObject-relational database and reports serverOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidatawww.valentina-db.netyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidatavalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAsthon TateOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesRocket SoftwareParadigma SoftwareQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release19792009198519992009
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.2.0, December 20225.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangC
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnooptionalyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ODBCJDBC
ODBC
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
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Erlangyesyes
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infoU2 Basicyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"nonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storednoyesyes
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 DBMSnoACID infoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system basedfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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