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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. NSDb vs. RDFox

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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.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.gbase.cncloud.google.com/­bigtablensdb.iowww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAsthon TateGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GoogleOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release19792004201520172017
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c6.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
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 DBMSACIDAtomic single-row operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Roles, resources, and access types

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