DBMS > BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MySQL vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MySQL vs. VelocityDB

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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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	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.dbase.com

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

www.mysql.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.heavy.ai

dev.mysql.com/doc

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Asthon Tate

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

1979

2016

1995

2011

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.10, January 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Based on Windows Authentication

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