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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Coveo vs. dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentdBase 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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSearch engineRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score2.11
Rank#118  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.coveo.comwww.dbase.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.coveo.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.CoveoAsthon TateCCRi and othersSpotify
Initial release20152012197920142014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Data schemeyeshybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
dBase proprietary IDE
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesnonedepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnonedepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlnogranular access controls, API key management, content filtersAccess rights for users and rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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