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DBMS > BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. FoundationDB vs. JSqlDb

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. FoundationDB vs. JSqlDb

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.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.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
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Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbjsqldb.org (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaseapple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperBaseX GmbHAsthon TateFoundationDBKonrad von Backstrom
Initial release20072016197920132018
Current release11.2, August 2024dBASE 2019, 20196.2.28, November 20200.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesno infosome layers support typingno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononosupported in specific SQL layer onlyno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.in SQL-layer onlyfunctions in JavaScript
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerno 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 RethinkDByesyesyes infousing RocksDB
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyesAccess rights for users and rolesno

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