DBMS > BigObject vs. dBASE vs. FeatureBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic

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

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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.

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

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 model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	8.32
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#302	Overall
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	0.75
Rank	#216	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.featurebase.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Asthon Tate

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

CCRi and others

Spotify

Initial release

2015

1979

2017

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2022, May 2022

5.0.1, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

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)

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency
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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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