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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic 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.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.dbase.comdgraph.iowww.esgyn.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedgraph.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateDgraph Labs, Inc.EsgynIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20151979201620152010
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++, JavaErlang
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
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noJava Stored ProceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyesno
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 DBMSACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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