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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RDF4J vs. SurrealDB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRDF storeDocument store
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaserdf4j.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaserdf4j.org/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAsthon TateGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release1979201220042022
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaRust
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.limited functionality with using 'rules'yes
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
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 DBMSyesACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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