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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. ObjectBox vs. TempoIQ

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Name

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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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

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

objectbox.io

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.heavy.ai

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Asthon Tate

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

TempoIQ

Initial release

1979

2016

2017

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

simple authentication-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

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