DBMS > Axibase vs. dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.dbase.com

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

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.heavy.ai

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Asthon Tate

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2013

1979

2016

2006

Current release

15585

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.10, January 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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