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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. GBase vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. GBase vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsIn-memory caching systemWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcachelot.iowww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Hypertable Inc.IBM
Initial release20162015200420092017
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c0.9.8.11, March 20162.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C, Java, PythonC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
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++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyesselectable replication factor on file system levelActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBnoyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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