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DBMS > BigObject vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. gStore vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. gStore vs. RDFox

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  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.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.dbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdben.gstore.cnwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mden.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateSoftmotionsOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20151979201220162017
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.2, November 20236.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++
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
server-lessLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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 indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.in-process shared libraryHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenonereplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible
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 DBMSnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesnoUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedRoles, resources, and access types

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