DBMS > ArangoDB vs. Axibase vs. dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Axibase vs. dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

arangodb.com

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.dbase.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.heavy.ai

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

Axibase Corporation

Asthon Tate

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2013

1979

2016

1989

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

15585

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.10, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Graph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantages

Consolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenarios

Native multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customers

Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing models

Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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