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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Couchbase vs. Heroic vs. Tibero vs. Trino

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Name

Description

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

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.couchbase.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

trino.io

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.couchbase.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

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

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Spotify

TmaxSoft

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2011

2014

2003

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

C and Assembler

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

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

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

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

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

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

selectable on a per-operation basis

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Ephemeral buckets

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

yes

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

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

SQL standard access control

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