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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Postgres-XL vs. Rockset

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceBigchainDB 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.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comwww.postgres-xl.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAsthon TateRockset
Initial release2019201619792014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2019
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesdynamic typing
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioningAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasselectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACID infoMVCCno
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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