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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. Datomic vs. EJDB vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. Datomic vs. EJDB vs. OrientDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.datomic.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdborientdb.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcubrid.org/­manualsdocs.datomic.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationCognitectSoftmotionsOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20162008201220122010
Current release11.0, January 20211.0.6735, June 20233.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++, JavaJava, ClojureCJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-lessAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIin-process shared libraryTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsnoJava, Javascript
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsnoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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