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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Datomic vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Datomic vs. HBase

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsIn-memory caching systemDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcachelot.iowww.datomic.comhbase.apache.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comhbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperCognitectApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release2016201520122008
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoSimplified BSD Licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++Java, ClojureJava
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Java
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBnoyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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