DBMS > dBASE vs. GBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenSearch vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenSearch vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.dbase.com

www.gbase.cn

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.heavy.ai

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Asthon Tate

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

TempoIQ

Initial release

1979

2004

2016

2021

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.10, January 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

C, Java, Python

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

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