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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. KairosDB vs. ObjectBox vs. TerminusDB

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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 Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
terminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasekairosdb.github.iodocs.objectbox.ioterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAsthon TateObjectBox LimitedDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release1979201320172018
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.2.2, November 20184.0 (May 2024)11.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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 SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary native APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandranoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
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 DBMSnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple password-based access controlyesRole-based access control
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