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DBMS > BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JSqlDb

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JSqlDb

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines 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.A multi-model DBMS and application serverJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachejsqldb.org (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHAsthon TateInterSystemsKonrad von Backstrom
Initial release20072016197919972018
Current release11.0, June 2024dBASE 2019, 20192018.1.4, May 20200.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPython
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
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..NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
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 IDEC#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesfunctions in JavaScript
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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