DBMS > BigchainDB vs. ClickHouse vs. dBASE vs. IRONdb vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. ClickHouse vs. dBASE vs. IRONdb vs. SiteWhere

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

clickhouse.com

www.dbase.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

clickhouse.com/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Asthon Tate

Circonus LLC.

SiteWhere

Initial release

2016

1979

2017

2010

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

dBASE 2019, 2019

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

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.

HTTP API

HTTP REST

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes, in Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

based on HBase

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

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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,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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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