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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. EJDB vs. GBase vs. Pinecone

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  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)Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.gbase.cnwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAsthon TateSoftmotionsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20161979201220042019
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonCC, Java, Python
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lessLinuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesString, Number, Boolean
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.in-process shared libraryADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
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#Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneyes
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 possibleyes
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 DBMSnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesnoyes

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