DBMS > Badger vs. dBASE vs. Google BigQuery vs. Splice Machine vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. dBASE vs. Google BigQuery vs. Splice Machine vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.dbase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

splicemachine.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

DGraph Labs

Asthon Tate

Google

Splice Machine

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2017

1979

2010

2014

2022

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.1, March 2021

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users and roles

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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