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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. dBASE vs. RDFox vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  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.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
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#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.dbase.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.oxfordsemantic.techhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateOxford Semantic TechnologiesSAP, SybaseRocket Software
Initial release20151979201719871985
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20196.0, Septermber 202216.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and 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
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptional
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
Java
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Java and Transact-SQLyes
Triggersnonoyesyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonereplication via a shared file systemMulti-source replication
Source-replica 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 in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesno
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 DBMSACIDACIDACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesRoles, resources, and access typesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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