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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. EXASOL vs. openGemini vs. TerminusDB vs. ToroDB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB 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.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.exasol.comwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
terminusdb.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.opengemini.org/­guideterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAsthon TateExasolHuawei and openGemini communityDataChemist Ltd.8Kdata
Initial release19792000202220182016
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.1, July 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoProlog, RustJava
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources..Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP RESTOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava
Lua
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesJournaling StreamsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
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 DBMSACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAdministrators and common users accountsRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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