DBMS > BigchainDB vs. FatDB vs. OceanBase vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. FatDB vs. OceanBase vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

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

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#147	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

en.oceanbase.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

FatCloud

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Facebook, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

2013

1993

Current release

4.3.0, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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