DBMS > dBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. OrientDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. OrientDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

orientdb.org

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Asthon Tate

Konrad von Backstrom

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

SAP

Initial release

1979

2018

2010

2004

2010

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

0.8, December 2018

3.2.29, March 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

functions in JavaScript

Java, Javascript

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

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