DBMS > BigObject vs. dBASE vs. HarperDB vs. Immudb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. dBASE vs. HarperDB vs. Immudb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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.

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.dbase.com

www.harperdb.io

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.immudb.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Asthon Tate

HarperDB

Codenotary

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

1979

2017

2020

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.1, August 2021

1.2.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Node.js

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
OS X

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like syntax

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session 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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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 LMDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.