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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StoragedBase 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)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software FoundationAsthon TateSoftmotionsDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2012197920122018
Current release1.20.3, January 2023dBASE 2019, 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lessLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes
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 indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.in-process shared libraryOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC++dBase proprietary IDEActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data source
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users and rolesnoRole-based access control

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