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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. dBASE vs. FatDB vs. GridDB vs. PouchDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesdBase 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 .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.dbase.comgriddb.netpouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.griddb.netpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateFatCloudToshiba CorporationApache Software Foundation
Initial release20151979201220132012
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.1, August 20227.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
WindowsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)no
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources..NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infovia applicationsnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes infovia applicationsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnoACID at container levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno
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Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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