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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. DuckDB vs. KairosDB vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. DuckDB vs. KairosDB vs. Machbase Neo

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsdBase 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.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comduckdb.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmachbase.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaseduckdb.org/­docskairosdb.github.iomachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperAsthon TateMachbase
Initial release20161979201820132013
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.0.0, June 20241.2.2, November 2018V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesnosimple password-based access controlsimple password-based access control

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