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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. HugeGraph vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

dBase 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 fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#339	Overall
	#33	Graph DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.dbase.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Asthon Tate

Baidu

Hughes Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1979

2018

1994

2013

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

0.9

4.4, October 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Users, roles and permissions

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