DBMS > BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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 high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.dbase.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.heavy.ai

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Asthon Tate

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

1979

2016

2015

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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