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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cassandra vs. Tibero

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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

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	103.86
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.81
Rank	#143	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

cassandra.apache.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2016

2008

2003

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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