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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. dBASE vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RDFox

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasespotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAsthon TateSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Oxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20131979201420102017
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20196.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaErlangC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesGodBase proprietary IDEC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
replication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
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 DBMSnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRoles, resources, and access types

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