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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Databricks vs. HyperSQL vs. Machbase Neo

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Name

Description

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

The 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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	81.08
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.databricks.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Databricks

Machbase

Initial release

2016

2013

2001

2013

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Python
R
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

selectable replication factor

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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Recent citations in the news

Using BigchainDB: A Database with Blockchain Characteristics
20 January 2022, Open Source For You

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