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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. GridGain vs. Hypertable vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. GridGain vs. Hypertable vs. TerminusDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comwww.gridgain.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAsthon TateGridGain Systems, Inc.Hypertable Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20161979200720092018
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019GridGain 8.5.10.9.8.11, March 201611.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, C++, .NetC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
C++ API
Thrift
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor on file system levelJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 DBMSACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
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 rolesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoRole-based access control

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