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DBMS > dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RDF4J vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RDF4J vs. Sadas Engine

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptiondBase 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.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#159  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
rdf4j.orgwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.heavy.airdf4j.org/­documentationwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperAsthon TateDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHEAVY.AI, Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SADAS s.r.l.
Initial release19792008201620042006
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20197.2.4, September 20125.10, January 20228.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDAJavaC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyesno
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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