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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Microsoft Access

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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.

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#199	Overall
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Score	14.38
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Score	141.82
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.dbase.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Asthon Tate

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

1979

1992

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

but no files for transaction logging

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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