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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SurrealDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessBigchainDB 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.Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorebigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasesurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAsthon TateSybase, SAPSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20162016197919932022
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonRust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources..NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEDelphi
Perl
PHP
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
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 integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDACID
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 infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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