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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Hazelcast vs. SQL.JS vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Hazelcast vs. SQL.JS vs. Trafodion

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.A widely adopted in-memory data gridPort of SQLite to JavaScriptTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeEvent StoreKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.eventstore.comhazelcast.comsql.js.orgtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdevelopers.eventstore.comhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedHazelcastAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162012200820122014
Current release21.2, February 20215.3.6, November 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaScriptC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infoEventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infoReplicated Mapnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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