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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. GeoSpock vs. MonetDB vs. openGauss

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. GeoSpock vs. MonetDB vs. openGauss

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines 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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA relational database management system that stores data in columnsAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comgeospock.comwww.monetdb.orggitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperAsthon TateGeoSpockMonetDB BVHuawei and openGauss community
Initial release2016197920042019
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.0, September 2019Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, JavascriptCC, C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic shardingSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
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 DBMSnoACIDACID
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 rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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