DBMS > BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. Snowflake vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. Snowflake vs. Trino

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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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Rackspace

Asthon Tate

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

2013

1979

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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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

hosted

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

SQL standard access control

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