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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Memcached

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Name	BigchainDB  Xexclude from comparison	dBASE  Xexclude from comparison	Memcached  Xexclude from comparison
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.	In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database model	Document store	Relational DBMS	Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.77 Rank #199   Overall #32   Document stores	Score 14.71 Rank #42   Overall #26   Relational DBMS	Score 24.12 Rank #33   Overall #4   Key-value stores
Website	www.bigchaindb.com	www.dbase.com	www.memcached.org
Technical documentation	bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latest	www.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebase	github.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
Developer		Asthon Tate	Danga Interactive originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release	2016	1979	2003
Current release		dBASE 2019, 2019	1.6.15, March 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source AGPL v3	commercial	Open Source BSD license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Python		C
Server operating systems	Linux	DOS dBase Classic Windows dBase Pro	FreeBSD Linux OS X Unix Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes	no
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.	no
Secondary indexes		yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	no
APIs and other access methods	CLI Client RESTful HTTP API	none The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.	Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages	Go Haskell Java JavaScript Python Ruby	dBase proprietary IDE	.Net C C++ ColdFusion Erlang Java Lisp Lua OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		no The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.	no
Triggers		no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	selectable replication factor	none	none Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data		no not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB	yes	no
User concepts Access control	yes	Access rights for users and roles	yes using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol
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