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

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

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  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.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 ElasticSearchEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
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
Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.dbase.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ittia.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateCCRi and othersSpotifyITTIA L.L.C.
Initial release20151979201420142007
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.0.0, May 20248.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC and C++
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 schemeyesyesyesschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyes
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonedepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonedepending on storage layeryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnonoyes
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 DBMSnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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 layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageDatabase file passwords

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