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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dragonfly vs. EsgynDB vs. H2 vs. HyperSQL

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Name

Description

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

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.esgyn.cn

www.h2database.com

hsqldb.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Esgyn

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2016

2023

2015

2005

2001

Current release

1.0, March 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Data scheme

schema-free

scheme-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Java Stored Procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Password-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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