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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PieCloudDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PieCloudDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.37
Rank#271  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.openpie.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAsthon TateIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OpenPieSiteWhere
Initial release2016197920102010
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languagePythonErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP/JSON APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyesSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
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 DBMSno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL StandardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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BigchainDBdBASEIBM CloudantPieCloudDBSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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