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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. PlanetScale vs. PouchDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryBigchainDB 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.Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.complanetscale.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaseplanetscale.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAsthon TatePlanetScaleApache Software Foundation
Initial release20142016197920202012
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20197.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonGoJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Docker
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infoproprietary syntaxView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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