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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BigObject vs. Brytlyt vs. dBASE vs. RDFox

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLdBase 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 modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbbigobject.iobrytlyt.iowww.dbase.comwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.bigobject.iodocs.brytlyt.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.BrytlytAsthon TateOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2015201619792017
Current release5.0, August 2023dBASE 2019, 20196.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes infoRDF schemas
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.yesnoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
dBase proprietary IDEC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuauser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSource-replica replicationnonereplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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 controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesRoles, resources, and access types
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