DBMS > Blazegraph vs. dBASE vs. FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. dBASE vs. FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

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.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#217	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

blazegraph.com

www.dbase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Blazegraph

Asthon Tate

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Oracle

Initial release

2006

1979

1983

2014

1980

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

dBASE 2019, 2019

19.4.1, November 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

PHP

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

Access rights for users and roles

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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