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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. dBASE vs. OpenEdge vs. VoltDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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.Application development environment with integrated database management systemDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.dbase.comwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateProgress Software CorporationVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2015197919842010
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019OpenEdge 12.2, March 202011.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, 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
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesJava
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
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 DBMSACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesUsers and groupsUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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