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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. dBASE vs. Firebolt vs. HEAVY.AI

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn embedded key-value store for Go.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.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.dbase.comwww.firebolt.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.firebolt.iodocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperAsthon TateFirebolt Analytics Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release20162013197920202016
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonGoC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources..Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
GodBase proprietary IDEGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenonedepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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