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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Derby vs. GBase vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

1997

2004

2018

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C, Java, Python

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

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

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

Journaling Streams

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Role-based access control

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