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

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

dBase 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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Asthon Tate

Manticore Software

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

1979

2001

2017

2012

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.7.2, June 2023

6.0, February 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Java, SQL

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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