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DBMS > dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. RDF4J vs. RDFox vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. RDF4J vs. RDFox vs. Solr

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.geomesa.orgrdf4j.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.techsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAsthon TateCCRi and othersSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Oxford Semantic TechnologiesApache Software Foundation
Initial release19792014200420172006
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.0.0, May 20246.0, Septermber 20229.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes infoRDF schemasyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic 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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava
PHP
Python
C
Java
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyesJava plugins
Triggersnonoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layernoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layernonereplication via a shared file systemyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
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 DBMSnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoRoles, resources, and access typesyes

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