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DBMS > BigObject vs. dBASE vs. Microsoft Access vs. OrigoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. dBASE vs. Microsoft Access vs. OrigoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  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.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.)A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.dbase.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessorigodb.comwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessorigodb.com/­docsdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateMicrosoftRobert Friberg et alPercona
Initial release2015197919922009 infounder the name LiveDB2015
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C#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
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.NetActionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesJavaScript
Triggersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesdepending on modelno
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 DBMSACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Role based authorizationAccess rights for users and roles

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