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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. MonetDB vs. RavenDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#102	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.datomic.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

ravendb.net/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Cognitect

MonetDB BV

Hibernating Rhinos

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2012

2004

2010

1998

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

5.4, July 2022

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authorization levels configured per client per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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