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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. Ehcache vs. EJDB vs. NuoDB

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DescriptiondBase 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 widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comdgraph.iowww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedgraph.io/­docswww.ehcache.org/­documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperAsthon TateDgraph Labs, Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSoftmotionsDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release19792016200920122013
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPLv2commercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaCC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-lesshosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JCachein-process shared libraryADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nononoJava, SQL
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesSharding infoby using Terracotta Servernonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via Raftyes infoby using Terracotta Servernoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesno infoPlanned for future releasesnonoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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