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DBMS > BigObject vs. dBASE vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. dBASE vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesdBase 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.Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.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 imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.37
Rank#278  Overall
#128  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.dbase.comwww.postgresql.fastware.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Asthon TatePostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyCCRi and othersSpotify
Initial release2015197920142014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 20225.0.0, 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 servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonepartitioning by range, list and by hashdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationdepending 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 datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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 controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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