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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. Ehcache vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. Ehcache vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.citusdata.comwww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.citusdata.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSpotifyOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20162010200920141994
Current release8.1, December 20183.10.0, March 202218.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCJavaJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnonoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JCacheHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonono
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes infoby using Terracotta ServeryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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