DBMS > dBASE vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graphite vs. PieCloudDB vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graphite vs. PieCloudDB vs. Splice Machine

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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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.openpie.com

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Asthon Tate

Google

Chris Davis

OpenPie

Splice Machine

Initial release

1979

2010

2006

2014

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.1, January 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Linux
Unix

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

HTTP API
Sockets

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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)

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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

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