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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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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.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storememgraph.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storememgraph.com/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAsthon TateIBMMemgraph LtdMicrosoft
Initial release1979201720172015
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.0V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infoFree license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes
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 indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenono
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneActive-active shard replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsno
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 infowith snapshot isolationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsyes infousing Azure authentication
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dBASEIBM Db2 Event StoreMemgraphMicrosoft Azure AI Search
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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