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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RDF4J vs. Sadas Engine vs. Splice Machine

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  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 hardwareRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeRelational 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
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
rdf4j.orgwww.sadasengine.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.heavy.airdf4j.org/­documentationwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAsthon TateHEAVY.AI, Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SADAS s.r.l.Splice Machine
Initial release19792016200420062014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.10, January 20228.03.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
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 robinnonehorizontal partitioningShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
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 DBMSnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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