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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. DataFS vs. DolphinDB vs. H2

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Name

Description

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

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Primary database model

Document store

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Mobiland AG

DolphinDB, Inc

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2016

2018

2005

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Windows-Profile

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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