DBMS > BigObject vs. dBASE vs. RDFox vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. dBASE vs. RDFox vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQLite

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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.

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.dbase.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sadasengine.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Asthon Tate

Oxford Semantic Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

1979

2017

2006

2000

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

6.0, Septermber 2022

8.0

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

via file-system locks

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Roles, resources, and access types

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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