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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Sequoiadb vs. StarRocks vs. Tkrzw vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Asthon Tate

Sequoiadb Ltd.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Mikio Hirabayashi

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1979

2013

2020

2009

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.3, June 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Linux
macOS

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
MySQL protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Java

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

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

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

simple password-based access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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