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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. dBASE vs. Graphite vs. PieCloudDB vs. RDFox

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph 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
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.dbase.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.openpie.comwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateChris DavisOpenPieOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2015197920062017
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.1, January 20236.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonC++
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
Unix
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
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.HTTP API
Sockets
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nouser defined functions
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneyesreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
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 DBMSnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infolockingyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesnoUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL StandardRoles, resources, and access types
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BigObjectdBASEGraphitePieCloudDBRDFox
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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