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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleWidely used in-process key-value storeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.esgyn.cngeospock.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperEsgynGeoSpockOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release2016201519942009
Current release2.0, September 201918.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonC++, JavaJava, JavascriptC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnonono
Triggersnonoyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenono

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