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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Datomic vs. dBASE vs. OpenEdge

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitydBase 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.Application development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.datomic.comwww.dbase.comwww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.datomic.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperRackspaceCognitectAsthon TateProgress Software Corporation
Initial release2013201219791984
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023dBASE 2019, 2019OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
dBase proprietary IDEProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and rolesUsers and groups

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