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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. EJDB vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. EJDB vs. Interbase

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperCognitectSoftmotionsEmbarcadero
Initial release2016201220121984
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPLv2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, ClojureCC
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMserver-lessAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIin-process shared libraryADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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