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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. CockroachDB vs. dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.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
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.cockroachlabs.comwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperCockroach LabsAsthon TateHEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release2013201519792016
Current release24.1.0, May 2024dBASE 2019, 20195.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoGoC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
dBase proprietary IDEAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.no
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTnoneSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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