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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Firebird vs. GBase

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSBigchainDB 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.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cn
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manuals
DeveloperAltibaseAsthon TateFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.
Initial release1999201619792000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2004
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023dBASE 2019, 20195.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonC and C++C, Java, Python
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoyesStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.PSQLuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
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 DBMSACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes

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