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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Ehcache vs. NSDb vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.ehcache.org

nsdb.io

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.ehcache.org/documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2009

2017

1980

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Java, Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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