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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Datomic vs. dBASE vs. Graphite vs. InterSystems Caché

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionLight-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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA multi-model DBMS and application server
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.datomic.comwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cache
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.datomic.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHCognitectAsthon TateChris DavisInterSystems
Initial release20072012197920061997
Current release10.7, August 20231.0.6735, June 2023dBASE 2019, 20192018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojurePython
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
dBase proprietary IDEJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsBy using transaction functionsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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