DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. Couchbase vs. dBASE vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. Couchbase vs. dBASE vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

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.

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

bigobject.io

www.couchbase.com

www.dbase.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

docs.bigobject.io

docs.couchbase.com

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

BigObject, Inc.

Couchbase, Inc.

Asthon Tate

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2016

2015

2011

1979

2017

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

dBase proprietary IDE

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Automatic Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

none

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Access rights for users and roles

Roles, resources, and access types

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