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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. GridGain

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  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.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.gridgain.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperCognitectAsthon TateSoftmotionsGridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release2012197920122007
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023dBASE 2019, 2019GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lessLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.in-process shared libraryHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
dBase proprietary IDEActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno 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 DBMSnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
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 rolesnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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