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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. EsgynDB vs. Graph Engine vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Trafodion

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.esgyn.cnwww.graphengine.iowww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iristrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAsthon TateEsgynMicrosoftInterSystemsApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19792015201020182014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192023.3, June 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java.NET and CC++, Java
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux.NETAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesdepending on used data modelyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Java Stored ProceduresyesyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
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 persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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dBASEEsgynDBGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityInterSystems IRISTrafodion
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