DBMS > BigchainDB vs. jBASE vs. mSQL vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. jBASE vs. mSQL vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Hughes Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

1991

1994

2014

Current release

5.7

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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