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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. etcd vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. etcd vs. Valentina Server

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  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 distributed reliable key-value storeObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.citusdata.cometcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.citusdata.cometcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
valentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperParadigma Software
Initial release201620101999
Current release8.1, December 20183.4, August 20195.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonCGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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 functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes
Triggersyesyes, watching key changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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