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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. dBASE vs. EDB Postgres vs. HugeGraph vs. mSQL

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  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.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.dbase.comwww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
hughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.enterprisedb.com/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperCognitectAsthon TateEnterpriseDBBaiduHughes Technologies
Initial release20121979200520181994
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023dBASE 2019, 201914, December 20210.94.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCJavaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
dBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Groovy
Java
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.asynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneMulti-source replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infoedges in graphno
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 DBMSACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
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 developmentnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsno

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