DBMS > Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SQL.JS vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SQL.JS vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.dbase.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

sql.js.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

Asthon Tate

Google

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2013

1979

2015

2012

2023

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

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

JavaScript

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

none

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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 for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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