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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. Lovefield vs. Transbase

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

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

google.github.io/lovefield

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cubrid.org/manuals

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2008

2014

1987

Current release

11.0, January 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C, C++, Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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