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DBMS > dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. Newts vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. Newts vs. Transbase

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
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 DBMSEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Time Series DBMS based on CassandraA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score12.24
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#164  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.30
Rank#302  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#383  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#327  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbopennms.github.io/­newtswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedgraph.io/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAsthon TateDgraph Labs, Inc.SoftmotionsOpenNMS GroupTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19792016201220141987
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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
in-process shared libraryHTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesdBase 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
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nononoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via Raftnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes
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 DBMSACIDnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesno infoPlanned for future releasesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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