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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. RDFox vs. Riak TS vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

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.

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dbase.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Asthon Tate

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Transwarp

Initial release

1979

2017

2015

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

6.0, Septermber 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

C
Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

replication via a shared file system

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Roles, resources, and access types

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