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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. CouchDB vs. HBase vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. CouchDB vs. HBase vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsIn-memory caching systemA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument storeWide column storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcachelot.iocouchdb.apache.orghbase.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablehbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOracle
Initial release20162015200520082007
Current release3.3.3, December 20232.3.4, January 202114.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++ErlangJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononooptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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 indexesnoyes infovia viewsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnoyesyesyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)configurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBnoyesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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