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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

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.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

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Score	0.24
Rank	#312	Overall
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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
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Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.bigchaindb.com

www.dbase.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Asthon Tate

SiteWhere

Initial release

2016

1979

2010

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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