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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. InfinityDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#292	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.brytlyt.io

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Brytlyt

Boiler Bay Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

2002

2010

Current release

5.0, August 2023

4.0

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Java

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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