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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GBase vs. GraphDB vs. NSDb vs. Rockset

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.32
Rank#91  Overall
#6  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.gbase.cnwww.ontotext.comnsdb.iorockset.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.rockset.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperAsthon TateGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.OntotextRockset
Initial release19792004200020172019
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c10.4, October 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringdynamic typing
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.yesnonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesall fields are automatically indexedall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoConstraint checkingnono
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 DBMSACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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dBASEGBaseGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMNSDbRockset
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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