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DBMS > BoltDB vs. dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. FatDB vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. FatDB vs. Heroic

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.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.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.dbase.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedgraph.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAsthon TateDgraph Labs, Inc.FatCloudSpotify
Initial release20131979201620122014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoGoC#Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono infoVia inetgration in SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGodBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes infovia applicationsno
Triggersnononoyes infovia applicationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSynchronous replication via Raftselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesno infoPlanned for future releasesno infoCan implement custom security layer via applications

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