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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigObject vs. dBASE vs. HarperDB vs. RDFox

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesdBase 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.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebigobject.iowww.dbase.comwww.harperdb.iowww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateHarperDBOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20162015197920172017
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.1, August 20216.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageNode.jsC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesdynamic schemayes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
dBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Custom Functions infosince release 3.1
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedreplication 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 integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSAtomic execution of specific operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesRoles, resources, and access types

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