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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. MonetDB vs. SQL.JS vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.monetdb.org

sql.js.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Softmotions

MonetDB BV

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2012

2004

2012

1998

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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