DBMS > BigObject vs. dBASE vs. Oracle vs. OrientDB vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. dBASE vs. Oracle vs. OrientDB vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

dBase 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.

Widely used RDBMS

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.dbase.com

www.oracle.com/database

orientdb.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Asthon Tate

Oracle

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2015

1979

1980

2010

2017

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

23c, September 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Roles, resources, and access types

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