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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. FatDB vs. Splice Machine vs. SwayDB

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Name

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

splicemachine.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

FatCloud

Splice Machine

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2018

Current release

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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

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Recent citations in the news

Using BigchainDB: A Database with Blockchain Characteristics
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7 blockchain firms join Bosch led GAIA-X consortium for vehicle identity - Ledger Insights
13 September 2022, Ledger Insights

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