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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. FatDB vs. Heroic vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. FatDB vs. Heroic vs. ObjectBox

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
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.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicobjectbox.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasespotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperAsthon TateFatCloudSpotifyObjectBox Limited
Initial release20161979201220142017
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC#JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
WindowsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources..NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEC#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.yes infovia applicationsnono
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factoryesonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
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 DBMSnonoACID
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes
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