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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. dBASE vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiteWhere

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesdBase 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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.combigobject.iowww.dbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.bigobject.iowww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Asthon TateIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SiteWhere
Initial release20162015197920102010
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freepredefined scheme
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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