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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Drizzle vs. Hazelcast vs. Lovefield vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Drizzle vs. Hazelcast vs. Lovefield vs. Trafodion

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A widely adopted in-memory data gridEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comhazelcast.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHazelcastGoogleApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162008200820142014
Current release7.2.4, September 20125.3.6, November 20232.1.12, February 20172.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++JavaJavaScriptC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoEventsUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoReplicated Mapnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPRole-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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