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

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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 engineDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitebigobject.iowww.dbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateIBMOxford Semantic Technologiesinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20151979201420172015
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20196.0, Septermber 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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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
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesnono
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
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
Java
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.PL/SQL, SQL PLyes infoon the application server
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesreplication via a shared file systemyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
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 setupsImmediate 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 DBMSACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writer
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRoles, resources, and access typesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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