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

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  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 assetsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitydBase 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
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Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  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.comwww.datomic.comwww.dbase.comdb.apache.org/­derbypouchdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperCognitectAsthon TateApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162012197919972012
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023dBASE 2019, 201910.17.1.0, November 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, ClojureJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMDOS 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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APInone 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
Clojure
Java
dBase proprietary IDEJavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Java Stored ProceduresView functions in JavaScript
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSource-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 integritynonoyesyesno
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 RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes 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.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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