DBMS > dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Machbase Neo vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Machbase Neo vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB

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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.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

machbase.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.heavy.ai

machbase.com/dbms

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Asthon Tate

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Machbase

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1979

2016

2013

2011

2013

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.10, January 2022

V8.0, August 2023

24.1, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Java

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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