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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. FatDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Sqrrl

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

hsqldb.org

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

FatCloud

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2001

2012

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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