DBMS > Altibase vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SAP HANA vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SAP HANA vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

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

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#204	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	8.32
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	2.93
Rank	#90	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	39.10
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.dbase.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Altibase

Asthon Tate

Google

SAP

Transwarp

Initial release

1999

1979

2015

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

Atomic single-row operations

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

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