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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. CrateDB vs. Riak KV vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. CrateDB vs. Riak KV vs. TimesTen

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDistributed Database based on LuceneDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#226  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#11  Vector DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblueflood.iocratedb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicratedb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperRackspaceCrateOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesOracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20162013201320091998
Current release5.8.1, August 20243.2.0, December 2022Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
OS X
IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)ErlangPL/SQL
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategynoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnorights management via user accountsyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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