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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BaseX vs. Datomic vs. dBASE vs. EJDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitydBase 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.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Native XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Websiteallegrograph.combasex.orgwww.datomic.comwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.basex.orgdocs.datomic.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.md
DeveloperFranz Inc.BaseX GmbHCognitectAsthon TateSoftmotions
Initial release20042007201219792012
Current release8.0, December 202310.7, August 20231.0.6735, June 2023dBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-less
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_id
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.no infobulk load of XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.in-process shared library
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
dBase proprietary IDEActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyesyes infoTransaction Functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.no
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoRead/Write Locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoAccess rights for users and rolesno
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Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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