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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2016

1999

2000

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

V8.0, August 2021

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Python

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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, optimistic concurrency control

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

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, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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