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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. SQLite vs. Ultipa

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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)

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#338	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.sqlite.org

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Softmotions

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Ultipa

Initial release

2016

2012

2000

2019

Current release

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

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