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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. Fauna vs. FeatureBase

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  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.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational 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
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfauna.comwww.featurebase.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.fauna.comdocs.featurebase.com
DeveloperAsthon TateSoftmotionsFauna, Inc.Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors
Initial release20161979201220142017
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192022, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonCScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lesshostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyes
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 indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL queries
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.in-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nouser defined functions
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesyes
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 DBMSnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes, using Linux fsync
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesnoIdentity management, authentication, and access control

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