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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. dBASE vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. dBASE vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  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.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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
Score5.71
Rank#64  Overall
#8  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comwww.dbase.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaselearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperCognitectAsthon TateMicrosoft
Initial release2016201219792015
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023dBASE 2019, 2019V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonJava, Clojure
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
dBase proprietary IDEC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.no
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
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 DBMSno
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)yesyes
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 developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users and rolesyes infousing Azure authentication

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