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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Drizzle vs. LeanXcale vs. NuoDB vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Drizzle vs. LeanXcale vs. NuoDB vs. RisingWave

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  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.
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 highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.leanxcale.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdoc.nuodb.comdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerLeanXcaleDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.RisingWave Labs
Initial release20162008201520132022
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++C++Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSON
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infothrough Apache Derbyyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocolno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersUsers and Roles

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