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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Greenplum vs. KairosDB vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Greenplum vs. KairosDB vs. NCache

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  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.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comgreenplum.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.greenplum.orgkairosdb.github.iowww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperAsthon TatePivotal Software Inc.Alachisoft
Initial release20161979200520132005
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20197.0.0, September 20231.2.2, November 20185.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
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 DBMSACIDnooptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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BigchainDBdBASEGreenplumKairosDBNCache
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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