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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comdgraph.iowww.monetdb.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedgraph.io/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAsthon TateDgraph Labs, Inc.MonetDB BVquasardb
Initial release20161979201620042009
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyesSharding via remote tablesSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSynchronous replication via Raftnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
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 DBMSACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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