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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Firebolt vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
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.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.firebolt.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
machbase.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.firebolt.iodocs.heavy.aimachbase.com/­dbmslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAsthon TateFirebolt Analytics Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.MachbaseMicrosoft
Initial release19792020201620132015
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.10, January 2022V8.0, August 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree test version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources..Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerMulti-source replicationselectable replication factoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
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 DBMSnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlyes infousing Azure authentication

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