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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  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 DBMSEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.dbase.comdgraph.iowww.esgyn.cnwww.firebirdsql.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedgraph.io/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAsthon TateDgraph Labs, Inc.EsgynFirebird FoundationMicrosoft
Initial release1979201620152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2015
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.0.0, January 2024V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageGoC++, JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noJava Stored ProceduresPSQLno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
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 DBMSACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
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 releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infousing Azure authentication

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