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DBMS > dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Spatial extension of H2Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Spatial DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.geomesa.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperAsthon TateCCRi and othersGoogleCNRSIBM
Initial release19792014201520132017
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20194.0.5, February 20242.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyes infobased on H2yes
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infobased on H2Active-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
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 DBMSnoAtomic single-row operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)No - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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