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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. FatDB vs. HyperSQL vs. VelocityDB

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

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comhsqldb.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperFatCloudVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2016201220012011
Current release2.7.2, June 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC#JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxWindowsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAny that supports .NET
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsJava, SQLno
Triggersyes infovia applicationsyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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