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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Kingbase vs. Newts vs. searchxml

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comwww.kingbase.com.cnopennms.github.io/­newtswww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAsthon TateBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.OpenNMS Groupinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20161979199920142015
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019V8.0, August 20211.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
HTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsnoyes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
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 DBMSACIDnomultiple readers, single writer
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 rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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