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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Document store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#199	Overall
	#32	Document stores

Score	115.45
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	5.35
Rank	#77	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#363	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Chris Davis

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2016

2008

2006

2014

Current release

4.0.4, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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