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DBMS > dBASE vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LeanXcale vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LeanXcale vs. Lovefield

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  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.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.leanxcale.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.heavy.aigithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperAsthon TateMicrosoftHEAVY.AI, Inc.LeanXcaleGoogle
Initial release19792010201620152014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.10, January 20222.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++ and CUDAJavaScript
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
.NETLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infothrough Apache DerbySQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
Java
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesnono
TriggersnononoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnone
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 integrityyesnonoyesyes
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 DBMSnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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