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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. PlanetScale vs. SpatiaLite

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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 hardwareEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
google.github.io/­lovefieldplanetscale.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.heavy.aigithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdplanetscale.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAsthon TateHEAVY.AI, Inc.GooglePlanetScaleAlessandro Furieri
Initial release19792016201420202008
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.10, January 20222.1.12, February 20175.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaScriptGoC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariDocker
Linux
macOS
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyes infoproprietary syntaxno
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
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 at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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