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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. RDF4J vs. STSdb

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

rdf4j.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Asthon Tate

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1979

2008

2004

2011

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

7.2.4, September 2012

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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