DBMS > Altibase vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Snowflake vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Snowflake vs. Weaviate

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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.

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.dbase.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.snowflake.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

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

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Altibase

Asthon Tate

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1999

1979

2017

2014

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

dBase proprietary IDE

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

yes

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. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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