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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. FileMaker vs. GBase vs. Riak TS

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  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.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime 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
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.gbase.cn
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperAsthon TateClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20161979198320042015
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201919.4.1, November 2021GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, Java, PythonErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infovia pluginsStandard with numerous extensionsyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEPHPC#C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesuser defined functionsErlang
Triggersnoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno infolinks between datasets can be stored
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 DBMSnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyesno

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