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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebird vs. jBASE vs. KairosDB vs. Newts

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Name

Description

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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.firebirdsql.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2016

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1991

2013

2014

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

5.7

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple password-based access control

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