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DBMS > dBASE vs. Graph Engine vs. Lovefield vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Graph Engine vs. Lovefield vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TempoIQ

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.graphengine.iogoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmltempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperAsthon TateMicrosoftGoogleSAP infoformerly SybaseTempoIQ
Initial release19792010201419922012
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.1.12, February 201717, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation language.NET and CJavaScript
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
.NETserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersyesyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
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 DBMSnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple authentication-based access control

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