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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. etcd vs. GBase vs. GreptimeDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Primary database model

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Rank	#216	Overall
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	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.gbase.cn

greptime.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.greptime.com

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Greptime Inc.

Initial release

2016

2004

2022

Current release

3.4, August 2019

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 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

C, Java, Python

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Python

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Simple rights management via user accounts

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Key customers

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