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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. dBASE vs. openGemini 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.

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#381	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#309	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.dbase.com

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.opengemini.org/guide

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Asthon Tate

Huawei and openGemini community

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2015

1979

2022

2017

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1.1, July 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

replication via a shared file system

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

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Administrators and common users accounts

Roles, resources, and access types

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