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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Dragonfly vs. MonetDB vs. SwayDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dragonfly vs. MonetDB vs. SwayDB vs. TimesTen

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA relational database management system that stores data in columnsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageAn 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 modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.monetdb.orgswaydb.simer.auwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsMonetDB BVSimer PlahaOracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20162023200420181998
Current release1.0, March 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++CScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
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
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes, in SQL, C, RnoPL/SQL
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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