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DBMS > dBASE vs. Sequoiadb vs. Tkrzw vs. TypeDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Sequoiadb vs. Tkrzw vs. TypeDB vs. Yaacomo

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
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.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query languageOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Relational DBMS
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Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.sequoiadb.comdbmx.net/­tkrzwtypedb.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indextypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAsthon TateSequoiadb Ltd.Mikio HirabayashiVaticleQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release19792013202020162009
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20190.9.3, August 20202.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Java
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoyes
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.proprietary protocol using JSONgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.JavaScriptnono
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoby using Cassandrahorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication infoby using CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeperno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infosubstituted by the relationship featureyes
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 DBMSDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACID
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.noyes infousing specific database classesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple password-based access controlnoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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dBASESequoiadbTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetTypeDB infoformerly named GraknYaacomo
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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