DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. OpenSearch vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. OpenSearch vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

blueflood.io

www.dbase.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

opensearch.org/docs/latest

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

Asthon Tate

Amazon Web Services

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2016

2013

1979

2021

2011

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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,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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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