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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. Microsoft Access vs. Sphinx vs. TDengine

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcubrid.org/­manualsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesssphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20162008199220012019
Current release11.0, January 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.5.1, February 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++, JavaC++C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocolJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003noyes
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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