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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Newts vs. PouchDB vs. Yanza

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza 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.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comopennms.github.io/­newtspouchdb.comyanza.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAsthon TateOpenNMS GroupApache Software FoundationYanza
Initial release20161979201420122015
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20197.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnono
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 indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEJavaJavaScriptany language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
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 DBMSnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesnonono

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