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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. dBASE vs. Derby vs. PouchDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLdBase 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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.38
Rank#279  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score5.30
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.combrytlyt.iowww.dbase.comdb.apache.org/­derbypouchdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.brytlyt.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperBrytlytAsthon TateApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162016197919972012
Current release5.0, August 2023dBASE 2019, 201910.17.1.0, November 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++ and CUDAJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
none 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
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
dBase proprietary IDEJavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Java Stored ProceduresView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-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 systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno 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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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