DBMS > BigchainDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Databricks vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Databricks vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	81.08
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

clickhouse.com

www.databricks.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.databricks.com

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Databricks

Oracle

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2013

2007

1998

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

14.1, August 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

with Databricks SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Python
R
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

optionally

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Supported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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