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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed 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.

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

janusgraph.org

google.github.io/lovefield

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.janusgraph.org

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Asthon Tate

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Google

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1979

2017

2014

2009

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

0.6.3, February 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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