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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Fauna vs. STSdb

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsdBase 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.Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#333  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#72  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comfauna.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.fauna.com
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Asthon TateFauna, Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20162016197920142011
Current release2.1, December 2018dBASE 2019, 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCPythonScalaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedWindows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users and rolesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlno

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