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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Postgres-XL vs. searchxml vs. Spark SQL vs. Stardog

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
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.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.stardog.com
DeveloperAsthon Tateinformationpartners gmbhApache Software FoundationStardog-Union
Initial release19792014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201520142010
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201910 R1, October 20181.03.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20237.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++ScalaJava
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyesnono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJava
Python
R
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsyes infoon the application servernouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnoneMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes inforelationships in graphs
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 DBMSACID infoMVCCmultiple readers, single writernoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnoAccess rights for users and roles

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