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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TinkerGraph

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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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Spatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.h2database.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudanttinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAsthon TateThomas MuellerCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release19792005201320102009
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangJava
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APITinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJavaJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
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 DBMSACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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