DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

blueflood.io

www.dbase.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Rackspace

Asthon Tate

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

2013

1979

1992

2000

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

17, July 2015

3.45.2 (12 March 2024), March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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 DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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