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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

newdatabase.com

hsqldb.org

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Mobiland AG

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2016

2018

2001

2009

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Android
Linux
Windows

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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