DBMS > BigObject vs. dBASE vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Access vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. dBASE vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Access vs. SQLite

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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.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
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Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
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Score	104.92
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Website

bigobject.io

www.dbase.com

hazelcast.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Asthon Tate

Hazelcast

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

1979

2008

1992

2000

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.3.6, November 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

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

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Replicated Map

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

Role-based access control

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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