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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. dBASE vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RDFox vs. Rockset

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.dbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.oxfordsemantic.techrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.oxfordsemantic.techdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateIBMOxford Semantic TechnologiesRockset
Initial release20151979201420172019
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20196.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC++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
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesdynamic typing
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources..NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.PL/SQL, SQL PLno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesreplication via a shared file systemyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesno
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
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRoles, resources, and access typesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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