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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. RDFox vs. RethinkDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. TDengine

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Spatial extension of SQLiteTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#305  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#15  RDF stores
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techrethinkdb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.oxfordsemantic.techrethinkdb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAsthon TateOxford Semantic TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Alessandro FurieriTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release19792017200920082019
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20196.0, Septermber 20222.4.1, August 20205.0.0, August 20203.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++C++C
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC
Java
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nono
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding inforange basednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonereplication via a shared file systemSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
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 DBMSACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRoles, resources, and access typesyes infousers and table-level permissionsnoyes
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Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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