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Name

Description

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

In-memory caching system

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Initial release

2016

2015

2005

2001

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Data scheme

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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