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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Machbase Neo vs. SpaceTime vs. Stardog vs. Yaacomo

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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.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#348	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.93
Rank	#121	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

www.dbase.com

machbase.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.stardog.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

machbase.com/dbms

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Asthon Tate

Machbase

Mireo

Stardog-Union

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1979

2013

2020

2010

2009

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

V8.0, August 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C#
C++
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

simple password-based access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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