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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Heroic vs. Machbase Neo vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.eventstore.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

machbase.com

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

developers.eventstore.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

machbase.com/dbms

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Event Store Limited

Spotify

Machbase

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2013

2017

Current release

21.2, February 2021

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple password-based access control

yes

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Recent citations in the news

Using BigchainDB: A Database with Blockchain Characteristics
20 January 2022, Open Source For You

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27 September 2016, CoinDesk

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28 September 2016, FinSMEs

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