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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Access vs. Quasardb

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Distributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftquasardb
Initial release20122016198319922009
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202119.4.1, November 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++PythonC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoyes infovia pluginsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
PHPC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)yessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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