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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Graph Engine vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.graphengine.iowww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasepostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdoc.nuodb.compostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAsthon TateMicrosoftDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release1979201020132005
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++C
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
.NEThosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesJava, SQLuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
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 infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
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 storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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