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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. jBASE

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic 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.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeMultivalue DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.dbase.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedgraph.io/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperCognitectAsthon TateDgraph Labs, Inc.SoftmotionsRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release20121979201620121991
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023dBASE 2019, 20195.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureGoC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idoptional
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
in-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
dBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSynchronous replication via Raftnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesno infoPlanned for future releasesnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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