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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. GridGain vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. GridGain vs. OpenTSDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score8.96
Rank#48  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.53
Rank#155  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.gridgain.comopentsdb.net
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasefirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAsthon TateGoogleGridGain Systems, Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20161979201720072011
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replicationyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflowyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
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 DBMSyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Security Hooks for custom implementationsno

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