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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Graphite vs. Manticore Search vs. PouchDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmanticoresearch.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegraphite.readthedocs.iomanual.manticoresearch.compouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAsthon TateChris DavisManticore SoftwareApache Software Foundation
Initial release20161979200620172012
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20196.0, February 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonPythonC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanno
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.nonoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP API
Sockets
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
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 DBMSnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesnonono

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