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

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

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

MySQL 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 capabilities

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.leanxcale.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

LeanXcale

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2008

2015

2013

2011

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

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

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

yes

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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