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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dolt vs. etcd vs. GBase

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Name

Description

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

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.gbase.cn

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.dolthub.com

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

Developer

DoltHub Inc

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2018

2004

Current release

3.4, August 2019

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

yes

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