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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. Netezza

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.BigchainDB 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.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comjsqldb.org (offline)www.ibm.com/­products/­netezza
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebase
DeveloperAlibabaAsthon TateKonrad von BackstromIBM
Initial release2016197920182000
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20190.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePython
Server operating systemshostedLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux infoincluded in appliance
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEJavaScriptC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factornonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
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 DBMSACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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