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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenQM vs. RavenDB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  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 hardwareExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
objectbox.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.heavy.aidocs.objectbox.ioravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperAsthon TateHEAVY.AI, Inc.ObjectBox LimitedRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsHibernating Rhinos
Initial release19792016201719932010
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.10, January 20223.4-125.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC and C++C#
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Proprietary native API.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyesyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinnoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
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 DBMSnoACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAuthorization levels configured per client per database
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