DBMS > dBASE vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Splice Machine vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Splice Machine vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

splicemachine.com

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Asthon Tate

Google

Splice Machine

Tencent

Initial release

1979

2010

2017

2014

2013

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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