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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SwayDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SwayDB vs. Trafodion

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesswaydb.simer.autrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasetrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAsthon TateMicrosoftSimer PlahaApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20161979201220182014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDE.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.noneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
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 DBMSoptimistic lockingAtomic execution of operationsACID
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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