DBMS > BigchainDB vs. ClickHouse vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. ClickHouse vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

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.

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

clickhouse.com

www.dbase.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

clickhouse.com/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Asthon Tate

Google

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2016

1979

2017

2003

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

dBASE 2019, 2019

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

dBase proprietary IDE

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

none

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

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

yes

ACID

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.

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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