DBMS > Apache Cassandra vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MonetDB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

www.dbase.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.intersystems.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Asthon Tate

InterSystems

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2008

2016

1979

1997

2004

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

dBASE 2019, 2019

2018.1.4, May 2020

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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