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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. H2GIS vs. HugeGraph vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

dBase 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 DBMS

Spatial extension of H2

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

dgraph.io

www.h2gis.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

dgraph.io/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Asthon Tate

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

CNRS

Baidu

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

1979

2016

2013

2018

1994

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

0.9

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

based on H2

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

based on H2

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Planned for future releases

yes

based on H2

Users, roles and permissions

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