DBMS > AgensGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. MySQL vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. MySQL vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

dev.mysql.com/doc

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Asthon Tate

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2016

1979

1995

2004

Current release

2.1, December 2018

dBASE 2019, 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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