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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. dBASE vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  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.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Widely used RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1244.08
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.dbase.commanticoresearch.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.oracle.com/­database
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasemanual.manticoresearch.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateManticore SoftwareMicrosoftOracle
Initial release20151979201719921980
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20196.0, February 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201923c, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C and 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
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemayesyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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.noCan index from XMLyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginePL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possible
Triggersnononoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocan be realized in PL/SQL
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyesyes
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 DBMSyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID infoisolation level can be parameterized
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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