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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. EJDB vs. OrientDB vs. Sequoiadb

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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)Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdborientdb.orgwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperCognitectSoftmotionsOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20162012201220102013
Current release1.0.6735, June 20233.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, ClojureCJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMserver-lessAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIin-process shared libraryTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
proprietary protocol using JSON
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#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsnoJava, JavascriptJavaScript
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
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 developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablesimple password-based access control

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