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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. DataFS vs. EJDB vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. DataFS vs. EJDB vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAll 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.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend
Primary database modelDocument storeObject oriented DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#354  Overall
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comnewdatabase.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgreenplum.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.greenplum.org
DeveloperMobiland AGSoftmotionsPivotal Software Inc.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release20162018201220052005
Current release1.1.263, October 20227.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC
Server operating systemsLinuxWindowsserver-lessLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)schema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesnonoyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
in-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersno, except callback-events from server when changes happenednoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingProprietary Sharding systemnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesWindows-Profilenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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