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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. ClickHouse vs. EJDB vs. HBase vs. Ultipa

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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.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

clickhouse.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

hbase.apache.org

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

clickhouse.com/docs

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

Softmotions

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Ultipa

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

2019

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

server-less

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

in-process shared library

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

none

Sharding

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.

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write 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.

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.

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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