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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Realm vs. Tarantool vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Realm vs. Tarantool vs. ToroDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is 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 TrafodionA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.esgyn.cnrealm.iowww.tarantool.iogithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestrealm.io/­docswww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperEsgynRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019VK8Kdata
Initial release20162015201420082016
Current release2.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++, JavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersnoyes infoChange Listenersyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnoneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes, write ahead loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-Memory realmyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
Access rights for users and roles

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