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

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

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

dBase 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.

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#272	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Asthon Tate

ITTIA L.L.C.

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2007

2016

1979

2007

2018

Current release

11.2, August 2024

dBASE 2019, 2019

8.7

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

using RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Database file passwords

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