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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BigchainDB vs. Drizzle vs. Graph Engine

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

www.bigchaindb.com

www.graphengine.io

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Altibase

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Microsoft

Initial release

1999

2016

2008

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Python

C++

.NET and C

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

.NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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