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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NSDb vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. NSDb vs. TimescaleDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDolphinDB 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.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dolphindb.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesnsdb.iowww.timescale.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.timescale.com
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncMicrosoftTimescale
Initial release20162018201220172017
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonC++Java, ScalaC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesoptimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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