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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Databricks vs. dBASE vs. HyperSQL

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.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.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.databricks.comwww.dbase.comhsqldb.org
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.databricks.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.DatabricksAsthon Tate
Initial release2015201319792001
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava
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
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementswith Databricks SQLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
dBase proprietary IDEAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functions and aggregatesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Java, SQL
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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