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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. BigObject vs. dBASE vs. Geode vs. RDFox

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleAnalytic 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.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.23
Rank#317  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlbigobject.iowww.dbase.comgeode.apache.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Oxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2015197920022017
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.1, February 20176.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux 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
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes 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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (OQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyes infoCache Event Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replicationreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSyes, on a single nodeACID
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights per client and object definableRoles, resources, and access types

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