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DBMS > dBASE vs. Graph Engine vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Graph Engine vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
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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 engineScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.graphengine.iotempoiq.com (offline)terminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAsthon TateMicrosoftTempoIQDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release1979201020122018
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation language.NET and CProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
.NETLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesnoyes
Triggersnonoyes infoRealtime Alertsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
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 DBMSnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple authentication-based access controlRole-based access control

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