DBMS > BigchainDB vs. EXASOL vs. MariaDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EXASOL vs. MariaDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm

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Name

Description

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.exasol.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.progress.com/openedge

realm.io

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.exasol.com/resources

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

realm.io/docs

Developer

Exasol

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Progress Software Corporation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2016

2000

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

1984

2014

Current release

11.3.2, February 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
Lua
Python
R

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

yes

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