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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. MaxDB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  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 DBMSGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Spatial extension of H2A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comdgraph.iocloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.h2gis.orgmaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedgraph.io/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homemaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperAsthon TateDgraph Labs, Inc.GoogleCNRSSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release19792016201520131984
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20197.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyes infobased on H2yes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via RaftInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infobased on H2Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
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 DBMSACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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