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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. dBASE vs. Newts vs. RDFox vs. TerminusDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.dbase.comopennms.github.io/­newtswww.oxfordsemantic.techterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.oxfordsemantic.techterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateOpenNMS GroupOxford Semantic TechnologiesDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20151979201420172018
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20196.0, Septermber 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Prolog, Rust
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
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJavaC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrareplication via a shared file systemJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyes
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)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesnoRoles, resources, and access typesRole-based access control

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