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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Derby vs. Hazelcast vs. ObjectBox

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsdBase 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.A widely adopted in-memory data gridExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comdb.apache.org/­derbyhazelcast.comobjectbox.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperAsthon TateApache Software FoundationHazelcastObjectBox Limited
Initial release20161979199720082017
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201910.17.1.0, November 20235.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEJava.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Java Stored Proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesno
Triggersnoyesyes infoEventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated Maponline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlyes
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