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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. Datomic vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.datomic.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.datomic.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Cognitect

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2008

2012

2009

Current release

11.0, January 2021

1.0.6735, June 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C, C++, Java

Java, Clojure

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

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