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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Databricks vs. Datomic vs. TimesTen

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.databricks.comwww.datomic.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.databricks.comdocs.datomic.comdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperDatabricksCognitectOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2016201320121998
Current release1.0.6735, June 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, Clojure
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Python
R
Scala
Clojure
Java
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes infoTransaction FunctionsPL/SQL
TriggersBy using transaction functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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