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DBMS > dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. RDF4J vs. Solr vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. GeoMesa vs. RDF4J vs. Solr vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  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.A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRDF storeSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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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
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#14  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.geomesa.orgrdf4j.orgsolr.apache.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAsthon TateCCRi and othersSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release19792014200420062023
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.0.0, May 20249.6.1, May 20241.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingVector, Numeric and String
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno
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
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava
PHP
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyesJava pluginsno
Triggersnonoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layernoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layernoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
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 usedoptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 storagenoyesRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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