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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.dolphindb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Google

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2016

2018

2010

1999

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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