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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. dBASE vs. RDF4J vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

dBase 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.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

rdf4j.org/documentation

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Asthon Tate

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

1979

2004

2012

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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