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DBMS > dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. FileMaker vs. GridGain vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. FileMaker vs. GridGain vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 DBMSFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comdgraph.iowww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.gridgain.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedgraph.io/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperAsthon TateDgraph Labs, Inc.Claris infoa subsidiary of AppleGridGain Systems, Inc.Sybase, SAP
Initial release19792016198320071993
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201919.4.1, November 2021GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infovia pluginsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
PHPC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes
Triggersnonoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
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 DBMSACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesno infoPlanned for future releasessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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