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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Ingres vs. Lovefield vs. SWC-DB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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 high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareWell established RDBMSEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.heavy.aidocs.actian.com/­ingresgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperAsthon TateHEAVY.AI, Inc.Actian CorporationGoogleAlex Kashirin
Initial release197920161974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20142020
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.10, January 202211.2, May 20222.1.12, February 20170.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDACJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptC++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyesnono
TriggersnonoyesUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationIngres Replicatornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
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 DBMSnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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