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

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

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  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 ElasticSearchScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational 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
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.dbase.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicplanetscale.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateCCRi and othersSpotifyPlanetScale
Initial release20151979201420142020
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.0.0, May 2024
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 servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageScalaJavaGo
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
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononoyes infowith proprietary extensions
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonedepending on storage layerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonedepending on storage layeryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
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 DBMSnonoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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 storageUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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