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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. PouchDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandradBase 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.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.09
Rank#353  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblueflood.iowww.dbase.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasepouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperRackspaceAsthon TateDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162013197920082012
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20197.2.4, September 20127.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandranoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
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 DBMSACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes 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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users and rolesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPno

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