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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OushuDB vs. SiriDB vs. Splice Machine

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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 hardwareA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningOpen Source Time Series DBMSOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBsiridb.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.heavy.aiwww.oushu.com/­documentationdocs.siridb.comsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAsthon TateHEAVY.AI, Inc.OushuCesbitSplice Machine
Initial release1979201620172014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.10, January 20224.0.1, August 20203.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDACJava
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesFull-featured ANSI SQL supportnoyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyesnoyes infoJava
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinyesShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationnoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
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 DBMSnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKerberos, SSL and role based accesssimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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