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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Ehcache vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Ehcache vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.ehcache.orgwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGThomas MuellerHypertable Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20162009200520092010
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.2.220, July 20230.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaC++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheJDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaJavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infoby using Terracotta ServerWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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