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DBMS > BigObject vs. dBASE vs. GeoSpock vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. dBASE vs. GeoSpock vs. SiteWhere

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.dbase.comgeospock.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasesitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateGeoSpockSiteWhere
Initial release201519792010
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJava
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
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.no
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
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 DBMSnono
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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