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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. OpenEdge vs. Vertica

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphdBase 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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Application development environment with integrated database management systemCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.69
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score9.62
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.dbase.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.vertica.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBAsthon TateCCRi and othersProgress Software CorporationOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20121979201419842005
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021dBASE 2019, 20195.0.1, July 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 202012.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageC, C++ScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnonoyes infoclose to SQL 92Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
dBase proprietary IDEProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyesyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonoyesyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnonedepending on storage layerhorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)nonedepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modedepending on storage layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users and rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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