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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. Netezza vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. Netezza vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is 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.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comjsqldb.org (offline)www.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAsthon TateKonrad von BackstromIBMOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20161979201820001994
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20190.8, December 201818.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesno
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEJavaScriptC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.functions in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersnononoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
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 DBMSACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
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 rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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