DBMS > Cassandra vs. dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SiriDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SiriDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.dbase.com

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

siridb.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.heavy.ai

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Asthon Tate

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Cesbit

Initial release

2008

1979

2016

2017

2009

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

dBase proprietary IDE

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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 can be defined per object

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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